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Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I don't understand from the blog post is what's different in this offering than github - is it just the agentic tie ins where I can ask my agent to make changes while browsing the PR? Are there any fundamental differences, ie ways of working that solve the worktrees problem?

There seems to be basically nothing new here

Except it promises not to crash regularly.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

#103
post #26

Cursor is allegedly worth $60B. That is a higher market cap than Mercedes Benz group, which is profitable and has $144B revenue . But the website uses 100% CPU. And this is a beta for paid plans, not a GitHub alternative.

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.

And that one can only win if it convinces leaders to regulate AI so that opensource models don't get good enough.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

#105
post #16

I was waiting for an AI company to do this. The opportunity to disrupt Github is very apparent right now.

I believe Entire.io is also trying to build a Github replacement. (Not affiliated, but I use the Entire.io CLI and I find it useful.)

When I click "Get Started" I get greeted with a Github Login button which is kind of ironic

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

#106
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There seems to be basically nothing new here

Except it promises not to crash regularly.

GitHub is crashing due to scaling pressure. Something GH is much more equipped to solve long term.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

#107
post #26

Cursor is allegedly worth $60B. That is a higher market cap than Mercedes Benz group, which is profitable and has $144B revenue . But the website uses 100% CPU. And this is a beta for paid plans, not a GitHub alternative.

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.

> only one can win

Why? I mean, if you assume that the moment some threshold of intelligence is reached it will suddenly explode and self-improve at a pace no one would be able to ever catch up with, then yes probably only one can win. But I think it’s more sci-fi than reality which is often more nuanced and boring.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

#109
Instead of creating one more centralized alternative, it's best to invest all effort into a decentralized solution, like Radicle[1][2] or federated Forgejo[3][4].

[1] https://radicle.dev/

[2] https://radicle.network/nodes/seed.radicle.dev/rad%3Az3gqcJU...

[3] https://forgejo.org/

[4] https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/m...

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

#110
post #26

Cursor is allegedly worth $60B. That is a higher market cap than Mercedes Benz group, which is profitable and has $144B revenue . But the website uses 100% CPU. And this is a beta for paid plans, not a GitHub alternative.

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.

> good enough" model for the cost of electricity

This already exists, in several tiers, depending on what you can afford to run (in terms of VRAM).

Deepseek V Flash 0731 is already good enough for many things.

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