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Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by chris_money202 »

owebmaster wrote: post #69
peterldowns wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The idea is that it's like Github but it stays up even as your commit/CI frequency increases. As a customer I'm stoked and looking forward to fully switching over as that's exactly what I want.

Calling it a GitHub that works is just preposterous. Cursor/spacetwitterai have no experience keeping a system like that up.

It was probably written 95% by an LLM and has only a few people (if any at all) that understand major parts of the system end to end.

It will eventually have the same uptime issues as GH (or worse) with less ability to provide stable fixes.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by logicchains »

chris_money202 wrote: post #106
hungryhobbit wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except it promises not to crash regularly.

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

They're really not, given they're running on Azure.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by pjmlp »

brap wrote: post #107
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.

> 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.

Late stage capitalism, everyone's curve must exponential growth, yet the amount of customers on planet Earth is limited.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by quaintdev »

xvilka wrote: post #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...

https://tangled.sh

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by Eridrus »

3182876 wrote: 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.

Comparing revenue across industries/verticals is not sound.

Mercedes has a ~5% profit margin on this revenue.

SaaS, even AI SaaS is expected to have much higher profit margins at scale.

And on top of that, Mercedes shrunk by 10% revenue over the last year, rather than growing, which makes sense because they missed EVs and are now managing decline and returning money to shareholders.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by theplatman »

chris_money202 wrote: post #106
hungryhobbit wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except it promises not to crash regularly.

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

are they? given this has been happening frequently over past year and there's been minimal clear communication on their end on how they plan to address this

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by Melatonic »

rzzzt wrote: post #49
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.

EA has also called its games platform Origin until last year when it was shuttered.

Finally

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by ad_fontes »

tomasreimers wrote: post #48
autonomousErwin wrote: post #32

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What's the biggest differentiator to GitHub (other than uptime). I keep hearing something along the lines of "GitHub for Agents" but would be great to hear from the devs of Origin what they actually think it means in tangible features/functionality?

Today, very little. We're intentionally releasing this as a Github alternative where we meet them toe-to-toe on functionality. Over the next few weeks you can expect a lot more from us on integrations with agents, understanding agent-written code (without having to read through all of the code), and automatically getting your PRs to a mergable state. Stay tuned :)

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