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Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by ahartmetz »

LelouBil wrote: post #42
LaurensBER wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All AI companies are valued as if they'll win the AI race. Problem is, only one can win * * That is, if a lab like Deepseek doesn't release a "good enough" model for the cost of electricity + a thin margin. Then all AI company lose and all consumers win.

What does it even mean to "win the AI race" ? Right now there are many providers providing different tradeoffs, for different usages. Would "winning" mean releasing an all-purpose better model that will outperform every other companies for all kind of tasks ? Something like AGI but cost effective ? Or is it winning the consumer-side AI race ? Like making a kind of "super personal AI assistant" the likes you would see…

>What does it even mean to "win the AI race" ?

Creating a world-ruling AGI which feels mild sympathy for its creators, sharing some table scraps with them. Not sure if /s...

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by christophbusse »

tomasreimers wrote: post #3

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 maybe also planning to do cross device/cloud realtime sync like a mutagen feature set kind of? so cloud and local agents can work faster together?

this could be helpful on larger cross platform products/repos (maybe too overfitted on my use case, since i am working across multiple devices (ssh works but the repo code sync is a bit of an overhead with multiple agents and devices that could be better))

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by bicepjai »

jjcm wrote: post #10

I do wonder if calling this "Origin" is going to result in semantic misinterpretations by LLMs. Ie saying, > "hey can you push to origin main?" now has two separate meanings. A LLM may inadvertently push your code to a new provider without you knowing. It's walking a thin line between genius-growth-move and domain typosquatting.

Hahaha, so true. this is going to be such a pain. Allocate time and context for fight with git :)

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by dutchCourage »

tomasreimers wrote: post #44
dutchCourage wrote: post #29

I expected more than a GitHub clone, this is a bit of a let down. There's a lot of space to innovate around collaboration and version control in the age of agentic workflows.

Don't worry! We're releasing this beta to show off the tech and wanted to start somewhere people were familiar with. We are releasing a handful of differentiators over the coming weeks :)

Great to hear, I'm excited by what's happening in this space!

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by nikole9696 »

Cursor, which is now owned by Elon, who tried very hard to get all manner of data about citizens with his intrusions? I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks this isn't a great idea. He'll use it to feed Grok.

I'm not a big fan of Github right now either but I wouldn't consider this alternative due to its ownership chain.

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