It doesn't matter how many technical blog posts they put out, I will still never host my code with Elon Musk.
I missed the news about SpaceX acquiring Cursor for 60 billion. Good to know.
Git at any scale
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#52There's nothing Cursor can do that GitHub/Microsoft can't in 2026... And vice versa... after several years of Cursor vibecoding a GitHub clone while catching up with GitHub's new features. Git's performance it's not the issue; it's GitHub Actions, PRs, etc. The moment Cursors steals paid GitHub customers and gets the same workloads, they will start having similar issues! Stealing engineers who couldn't fix this at GitHub won't make much of a difference. GitHub is not just source control; everybody can set up Gitolite and have an amazingly configurable and secure Git setup. I did this 10 years ago, and CODEOWNERS, protected branches, and tags can't do 1% of what I had done before. Cursor is going all over the place as it can't compete with their model. So, this is a defeat, a pivot, not something glorious!
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at this point, s3 just means object storage and doesnt mean it actually has to be hosted on aws. theres plenty of other companies that provide s3 compatible storage apis.
APIs, sure, but do they provide the semi-magical consistency, atomicity, durability, and latency guarantees that this depends on?
Yes a good object storage service provider would. It all depends on what you are optimizing for. If you are only optimizing for cost then there are several cheap options that probably don't make sense for hot or warm storage. But if you care about availability, consistency, and latency guarantees then there are different service providers available.
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#54Took me some thinking to figure out where this design is not optimal. The first step is to separate the problems. The content addressable object storage and storing the refs. libgit2 has two backends for those already. Then use appropriate distributed dbs for the two backends. With large scale something like Cassandra for the objects (AP) and FoundationDB (CP) for the refs (or the equivalent Amazon services). For per…
Part of the problem is that the API you're supposed to provide externally depends on git packs which you might have to reconstruct on the fly from such a system.
Then the local cache system needs to provide or cache those git packs
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#57It doesn't matter how many technical blog posts they put out, I will still never host my code with Elon Musk.
Agreed. The recent privacy kerfuffle with Grok CLI (plus the untrue "it's your fault" response, although they then changed the behavior) is a really bad sign for how your code and data will be the treated.
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Just like with climate change, the problems Elon creates don’t go away just because people are reminded of them. He still pushes his agenda, he still has lots of followers who believe his nonsense
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He can do that without the "Roman salute" part. Or the "methane reactors without emission controls" part. Or the "whining about the great replacement" part.
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Just like with climate change, the problems Elon creates don’t go away just because people are reminded of them. He still pushes his agenda, he still has lots of followers who believe his nonsense
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Racism? Here's Elon Musk today whining about George Floyd.
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Just like with climate change, the problems Elon creates don’t go away just because people are reminded of them. He still pushes his agenda, he still has lots of followers who believe his nonsense
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His agenda is to improve the stock price of TSLA and SPCX via a) overpromising and memeing on X and b) political deals.
Members of he Kushner family got rich via the outrageous $60B payment for Cursor, and I'm sure Musk will be rewarded later with government deals.