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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!

Do you have full trust in that Elon would never abuse the access to sensitive data? What protections are in place to prevent Elon from stealing data?

I trust Elon eons more than any psycho billionaire.

Positive motivation for tech and the future makes all the difference.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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When you work at an enterprise that depends on Github, frequent outages are actually a pretty big deal and begin to impact productivity in a real way.

It feels to me like this is a case of very rapid increase in load from AI pr's more than product quality degrading because of cruft or poor maintenance. It's annoying but I'm not confident that alternatives will do better in the long run vs GitHub (which I'm guessing will improve with time)

It's not only PRs, my personal projects which used github actions were seeing more builds in a single month than all of the previous year.

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.

Mercurial always looked nice

Mercurial still looks nice.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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I am quite starting to like this timeline. I hard boycotted GitHub for ten years after the meritocracy rug fiasco. I went back there dragging my feet while transferring hundreds of repos a few years ago ...

Origin has a chance to be the future of this space, with a clean slate and reputation. I pray they don't soil it.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

#406

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!

It's been 5 hours and instead of "any" questions, you have only been happy to answer the 1 question that hasn't put you in a tight spot. Honestly, that does not look too good for you or the offering - and this is coming from someone that just chose Cursor over Claude Code a week ago.

you are asking a presumably IC or IC-ish worker on decisions that are out of their control or things that should be directed to sales people or the legal people

we all have worked on software. we all know we aren't exactly the best people to point to ToS or how decisions are made higher up from us

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…

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…

What does make GitHub what it is? Weekly downtime that cripples our companies?

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

#408

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!

You haven't answered much but I must recognize posting this was brave.

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Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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I love how people like you actually think Elon actually wanted your data.

If you actually believe that he didn't , you are, at best, out of touch. His little "DOGE" endeavor was actively caught exfiltrating personal data about everyone in the country, and the first thing that happened after SpaceX acquired Cursor was pumping all of the data Cursor had acquired into Grok training. He is quite literally the shining example of "Imma do what I want, even if it's against my own terms of service…

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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!

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?

Probably has better uptime, tho I think everyone beats github on this right now.
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