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Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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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…

That used to be a big deal. I don't think it is anymore. One great thing about the rise of AI is that now it's super easy to make and maintain integrations. This is a place where AI coding uniquely shines due to the points being well defined and mostly quite standard. This is going to hurt the monopoly power of software companies. But it'll be great for allowing the proliferation of smaller companies, open source, an…

Creating? Sure. Maintaining? absolutely not.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Tangled is forcing some of their particular technologies (nix/rust) on users for those pieces and that is a hard sell. I don't use those techs, so I'm not interested to use a platform that I need to learn them to use. fwiw, the main site also seems to be down right now, infinite spinner. Docs and blog are loading though

What does "forcing" mean here ? If you want to build an alternative Knot implementation (git Hosting) you can use anything as long as the API is compatible ? Same for all of the parts of Tangled really Also, even if it's down, unlike GitHub you can self host your own AppView so it's never down for you

> you can self host your own AppView so it's never down for you

Self hosted servers go down too and why people have picked hosted solutions like GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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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!

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Many, many millions of reasons.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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I'm going to take a while guess here and say this strategy is part of their plan to get even more access to more code to learn from.

If you can see entire version histories of how code is generated, what bugs occur, what fixes are made and how they're implemented, you have the entire human and machine coding feedback loop to learn from.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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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.

They can limit whatever they want within their own borders. Who cares. It’s only ~350m people. The rest of the world benefits while the US dismantles its own relevance.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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It sucks to see Github's fall from grace, but I just can't bring myself to use a service like this under the custody of SpaceX. Agreed. It's like going from bad to worse. Not to mention, Origin doesn't even support actions. They are doing the easiest part of git hosting and no mention of anything that actually makes Github what it is. What Origin is offering is literally a weekend project, and anything having to do w…

Actions should be decoupled from the version control system.

I disagree. The integrated workflow of actions, issues, code review and source control is a huge productivity win. There’s a reason people chase a “single pane of glass”.
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