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Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Hi all, my name is Tomas. I am one of the developers on Origin, and I was one of the founders of Graphite ( https://graphite.com ). Happy to answer any questions about Origin or source control in general!

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I think there are a large number of people I’d trust with my code before Musk, and some of them are already running public Git repo hosting.

xAI was caught uploading any repo their coding agent touched to their storage only last month. This isn’t about Musk’s ideology: it’s about his trustworthiness. He sincerely believes he’s the only person who can save the world and that allows him to justify an awful lot of moral lapses.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Hi all, my name is Tomas. I am one of the developers on Origin, and I was one of the founders of Graphite ( https://graphite.com ). Happy to answer any questions about Origin or source control in general!

Are you interested in integrating with more CI platforms, including less "traditional" ones, like dagger.io? If so I would love to talk :)

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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I think there are a large number of people I’d trust with my code before Musk, and some of them are already running public Git repo hosting. xAI was caught uploading any repo their coding agent touched to their storage only last month. This isn’t about Musk’s ideology: it’s about his trustworthiness. He sincerely believes he’s the only person who can save the world and that allows him to justify an awful lot of moral…

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Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Let's see how strong GitHub's network effect really is. While the real solution is to actually self-host as I said before [0], it is worth testing to see how much can GitHub's users tolerate the endless outages and unreliability and where they go next. We'll see if they want Cursor Origin or the declining GitHub. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331922

> We'll see if they want Cursor Origin or the declining GitHub.

I don't want either tbh. There's plenty of open source alternatives. If there's anyone I trust less than Microsoft, it's Elon Musk.

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