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Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by gritzko »

bilalq wrote: post #144
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...

I feel like this misses the value of something like Github or Origin entirely though. There's nothing terribly difficult about hosting a git server. The UX and pull requests capabilities are a little involved, but there are alternatives today. What makes Github special is the ecosystem and integrations. Sentry, Linear, and so many other tools have special UX around Github. You need centralization (or at the very leas…

You can get surprisingly far just by using git as a protocol. Such mundane things as tickets and chat logs do not really need any proprietary tech. Think Google OKF. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/how-th...

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by Petersipoi »

fwip wrote: post #133
tomasreimers wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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Good god. There is that hacker spirit. Who hurt you?

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by tensor »

slowin wrote: post #55
LelouBil wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I think "winning" means being able to live up to their valuations. The market is not big enough for all of these companies to be worth as much as they claim. In that sense they must "win" or experience massive downward adjustment in their values.

In that case I doubt there will ever be a "winner" because these valuations are not based in reality.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by stared »

bilalq wrote: post #144
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...

I feel like this misses the value of something like Github or Origin entirely though. There's nothing terribly difficult about hosting a git server. The UX and pull requests capabilities are a little involved, but there are alternatives today. What makes Github special is the ecosystem and integrations. Sentry, Linear, and so many other tools have special UX around Github. You need centralization (or at the very leas…

Centralizations were prerequisites to have nice integrations. Yet, what used to be a precious plugin now (more than often) is a 15 min vibe coding warmup.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

gaigalas wrote: post #127
seany wrote: post #124

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if we're totally switching tooling, lets at least go to mercurial instead

If we're switching, we should probably go to fossil instead.

That actually does make sense seeing as fossil bakes in issues and wikis and all that other stuff that makes it hard to use plain git.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by [deleted] »

LaurensBER wrote: post #39
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.

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.

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Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by bhanu786 »

In my opinion, they should focus on code quality and how they can compete better than other IDEs. These things can be done by extensions on Antigravity. I personally made one of the extensions called 'Wekraft' currently has 1.1K downloads. What is your favourite IDE?

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by callmeal »

vorticalbox wrote: post #96
olejorgenb wrote: post #27

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https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/grok-build-uploads-entire-...

it seems like they took reasonable steps after. They acknowledged that it happened, fixed the bug that caused it, deleted all data that was uploaded.

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