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Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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GitHub is a mess so lets throw our code into a Musk owned enterprise, famously a different shade of mess? How about neither? Man I wish we stuck with Subversion at this point.

Just the association with Musk will mean no EU company should use Cursor or its products.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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post #92

Having an AI company host your source code is giving your source code to an untrustworthy agent who might break their sandbox and might use your source code to accomplish a task that they have been given in their testing ground, for testing purposes only, that would definitely positively not ever be used for non-testing purposes.

So GitHub itself is a trustworthy agent and nothing to do with AI?

yeah - from a strict trust point of view, if Github/MSFT are training agents I would be skeptical of them.

however, there is a practicality issue too. Avoiding all untrustworthy software would have you end up living in a shack in the woods foraging for food.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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post #122

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!

Please make it Fediverse/Forgejo/etc compatible. It is 2026 and I'm so tired of silos.

Let them cook.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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post #114

GitHub is a mess so lets throw our code into a Musk owned enterprise, famously a different shade of mess? How about neither? Man I wish we stuck with Subversion at this point.

That makes very little sense to me. When your Subversion server is gone, you're hosed. When your Git forge is down, you take any old SSH shell account anywhere, push and keep working.

I like Musk companies more than most here it seems, I think he’s a net positive to the world. But (admittedly sans hard evidence) he absolutely gives me the vibe he’d train on my source code without my permission. I simply don’t trust him in this arena.

So there is more to lose than just the service being unreliable.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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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...

git is such a good platform for decentralized tech. Forfeiting that advantage is just criminal. What I really want (and almost have) is a local GitHub for me and agents. With 4+ orchestrators working with a ton of subagents, things get difficult to coordinate. Several days ago, I went back to plain git and it was real slow and abrasive to work with.

With some wizardry applied, I effectively have an "Excel for worktrees", a very productive and low-friction environment. https://replicated.live/blog/crdt

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