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Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
- dmix 1mo agoI was waiting for an AI company to do this. The opportunity to disrupt Github is very apparent right now.
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- pydry 1mo agoAlthough since vibe coding is Github's Achilles heel openai might not be quite the right company to exploit that.
- kakugawa 1mo agoI believe Entire.io is also trying to build a Github replacement. (Not affiliated, but I use the Entire.io CLI and I find it useful.)
- flyingjoe 1mo agoWhen I click "Get Started" I get greeted with a Github Login button which is kind of ironic
- croes 1mo agoHow about an original and distinguishable name? Then again, what did I expect from a company named cursor.
- maherbeg 1mo agoThis is a great name! It ties back to git nicely (git pull origin/main), and sounds human. Cursor was also a great name given that it evolved into an advanced AI assisted auto complete. I think their team does a solid job with naming.
- croes 1mo agoThen google the names and look what comes up. Without additional search terms you get the wrong results. A word that is already used in computer is a bad name. And with AI it won’t get better. Ambiguity is a source of confusion and mistakes. By your logic pull/push/main are also great names. One main purpose of a name is distinguishability.
- treexs 1mo agoIf you google Cursor they dominate the whole first page Surely they have a chance of doing it again with Origin
- skeledrew 1mo ago> Without additional search terms you get the wrong results. Until the entity becomes popular enough, like I just searched for "stripe" and all visible results were about the payment company.
- figassis 1mo agoWhy not evaluate them on the merits? Is the name really the thing that’s important here? “GitHub has so many outages, but dammit, that other one has a terrible name, it’s practically unusable”. And origin is a pretty great name to give a git hosting platform. And do you think GitHub, Gitlab are original?
- simondotau 29d agoIt's trendy. If you don't like it, you can go write some go in go. Contribute to a thread on Threads. Write a factory with Factory. Write your reflections in Reflect. Keep in the loop on Loop while you recall what you did with Recall. So many choices.
- tomasreimers 1mo agoHi 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 https://graphite.com). Happy to answer any questions about Origin or source control in general!
- AmericanOP 1mo ago[flagged]
- _kidlike 28d agowhat does it mean that Origin was built for the era that code moves faster than infrastructure can handle? Is it just clickbait, or there's something fundamentally different about Origin?
- johnAthan_ 28d agothis deserves more attention
- neuronexmachina 28d agoThere's a separate post about the technical differences: https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale
- _kidlike 28d agoThanks! ok, then it is indeed clickbait. S3 is still "infrastructure". Also this implies that nobody tried to build a more performant/efficient system for git for ~13 years? That's crazy...
- jjcm 1mo agoWhat 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?
- nerdypepper 1mo agois there a way to browse a repository on origin without a cursor account? are all repos private? how is this a github alternative if so?
- tomasreimers 1mo agoCurrently Origin repositories are private to members of a Cursor team. Over time we plan to expand access, but wanted to start with a limited beta of the underlying git tech.
- bakies 1mo agojust like twitter, can't do shit without an account, lame and I won't even look at this product, cya.
- rvz 1mo agoLet's see how strong GitHub's network effect really is. While the real solution is to actually self-host as I said before [0], it is worth testing to see how much can GitHub's users tolerate the endless outages and unreliability and where they go next. We'll see if they want Cursor Origin or the declining GitHub. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331922 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331922
- slowin 1mo ago> We'll see if they want Cursor Origin or the declining GitHub. I don't want either tbh. There's plenty of open source alternatives. If there's anyone I trust less than Microsoft, it's Elon Musk.
- verdverm 1mo agoWe are more likely to find out the anti-network effect of Elon There are many people who will not touch this and look down upon those that do. Ethics and morals still seem to have some weight
- jjcm 1mo agoI do wonder if calling this "Origin" is going to result in semantic misinterpretations by LLMs. Ie saying, > "hey can you push to origin main?" now has two separate meanings. A LLM may inadvertently push your code to a new provider without you knowing. It's walking a thin line between genius-growth-move and domain typosquatting.
- halJordan 1mo agoWell you see, there's this thing called an embedding and it sits inside a vector space and when attention is applied it disambiguates
- rzzzt 1mo agoEA has also called its games platform Origin until last year when it was shuttered.
- Melatonic 1mo agoFinally
- melezhik 1mo agoYep. The same feeling )
- bicepjai 1mo agoHahaha, so true. this is going to be such a pain. Allocate time and context for fight with git :)
- DonHopkins 1mo ago[dead]
- ChrisArchitect 1mo agoBeen waiting ages for them to post any kind of non-comingsoon page about this thing. Wonder if they pushed up the launch based on the earlier GitHub outage buzz.
- VCFundedGenYer 1mo agoIf AI is involved it's a big "no, thanks" from me. Simply takes the problem and moves it down the street.
- sidcool 1mo agoWhy?
- vb-8448 1mo agoWhat a timing! I wonder if they were waiting for a major githut incident :D
- jvwww 1mo agoYou don't have to wait long for that to happen!
- throwawaydfasjf 1mo agoYou need to link your github account to even open the thing. How is this a competitor?
- guywithahat 1mo agoThis is very cool but there's no way they won't train on your private repos, in a way that github has been pleasantly respectful of. I have issues with github, but the recent uptime issues are more related to people uploading way more code due to AI than some sort of mismanagement.
- hebetude 1mo agoGit can be hosted over ssh or filesystem. I moved to self hosting git. Now it’s always up, go figure!
- slowin 1mo agoI would never host my code with Elon Musk. I've also moved on from using Cursor to Claude Code/Codex. GitHub has problems, but this is likely (and hopefully) DOA.
- 3182876 1mo agoCursor 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.
- LaurensBER 1mo agoAll 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.
- LelouBil 1mo agoWhat 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 in movies and TVs ? I'm not arguing, I am just struggling to understand what it usually means when somebody says that, it's not like competitors will go bankrupt the second OpenAI/Anthropic/Whatever does something specific.
- slowin 1mo agoI 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.
- iAMkenough 1mo agoSo “winning” could mean everyone experiences massive downward adjustment, but your valuation is still highest?
- dutchCourage 1mo agoI expected more than a GitHub clone, this is a bit of a let down. There's a lot of space to innovate around collaboration and version control in the age of agentic workflows.
- tomasreimers 1mo agoDon't worry! We're releasing this beta to show off the tech and wanted to start somewhere people were familiar with. We are releasing a handful of differentiators over the coming weeks :)
- dutchCourage 1mo agoGreat to hear, I'm excited by what's happening in this space!
- nikolay 29d agoWell, this is not even an MVP. I couldn't get my GitHub org name, so I'm not interested in your vibe-coded clone. You don't get the value of identity! When you release stuff like this, you can't leave it to be driven by chaos. Facebook had a strict timeline for releasing Facebook users' names, and everybody got an equal chance; it did very well recently with WhatsApp usernames as well. And what you did was let some people grab the usernames of paying customers, who were on vacation or busy at the moment! What a big fiasco, but, of course, you don't care as you've got yours already, right?
- sidcool 1mo agoThis is just a beta. And it will iterate rapidly. Not sure how something can let you down so easily at first contact.
- elpakal 1mo agoTotally agree. I wonder if git itself needs to be looked at, its objects and history are likely not as important as the context/instructions used to make code changes these days imho
- throwaway613746 1mo agoDoes this have stacked PRs? Cursor acquired Graphite a while back and stacked PRs were a killer feature.
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- slowin 1mo agoThat's horrific and the saddest thing I've read in a really long time. I'm glad I erased my Twitter account and I'm definitely not using this code host. Seriously, this is horrible.
- majorchord 1mo agoBut you'll comment on a website that funds Flock
- grandpajoey 1mo ago[flagged]
- ad_fontes 1mo agoWell, shit. I guess it's back to Slashdot then.
- gWPVhyxPHqvk 1mo agoI pay $0 for this website, and there's no advertising (or if there is, I adblock it).
- leobg 1mo agoLiterally your source: > her stepfather used the Grok chatbot to transform a childhood photo into child sexual abuse material He could have used Stable Diffusion. Or, if this was the 90s, Photoshop. By your argument, we’d have to abolish the internet, or add nanny filters to everything. How many people on HN resent it when Claude refuses an instruction? And yet here you are, arguing against personal responsibility and for a when-in-doubt-block approach to technology. Is it because it’s Musk?
- DrBenCarson 1mo agoCome on, man. Not allowing products to generate CP is too high of a bar? By your logic cops should be focused on the junkies, forget about the cartel
- colinrand 1mo agoHaving 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.
- sidcool 1mo agoSo GitHub too, then?
- bakies 1mo agoyes, host your own if you care about data integrity
- aldanor 1mo agoSo GitHub itself is a trustworthy agent and nothing to do with AI?
- colinrand 1mo agoyeah - 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.
- haunter 1mo agoHost your code with Elon Musk, what could go wrong
- operatingthetan 1mo agoTrue, but people risk their lives by using his vehicles every day, why not YOLO their code too?
- grim_io 1mo agoIs this a rebranding of the Google Cloud Storage bucket Elon was uploading all our repos to? ;)
- artooro 1mo agoThis is a good start. You can connect it to 3rd party apps to do CI Runners, etc. Hoping it develops quickly and becomes more fleshed out. The main limitation right now is that to share the code with anyone outside your Cursor organization, you need to sync it with GitHub.
- drivingmenuts 1mo agoThis completely fails to address one of the issues that people have with Github, which is the use of AI, whether you like it or not.
- thebitguru 1mo agoVibe coders rejoice! Vibe coding is even easier now =) Jokes aside, this is a smart move by Cursor. As you can probably tell by the comments here, it's not for the experienced developers, but it will be a natural choice for vibe coders.
- LelouBil 1mo agoI really hope more people would use Tangled (https://tangled.org/ https://tangled.org/) You get: - Self hosting your git hosting (if you want) - Self hosting your issues/PRs (if you want) - Self hosting your CI (if you want) - Github-like social features (I have one account, I can follow, star, add issues and PRs to any repo on tangled) It's built on ATProto, so even if the company disappears, all of the integration and features will still work for anyone that wants to run their own AppView (that is open-source), an AppView is basically the UI/Network-wide Data Aggregator for ATProto apps
- verdverm 1mo agoTangled 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
- LelouBil 1mo agoWhat 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
- pianopatrick 1mo agonow that software is easy to make and github has problems, how many "git as a service" offerings will there be? My guess is there will be at least dozens if not hundreds.
- owebmaster 1mo agoFirst attempt, they stole the code from customers. Now they will try to ask people to voluntarily give them code. It's funny that they are trying to replace GitHub by the part that already has multiple alternatives tho. This will fail without a doubt.
- real-hacker 1mo ago"Legacy Privacy Mode disables code storage, so you can't set up a Codebase. Switch to a different privacy mode below to continue." The only other privacy mode is to share data for Cursor to do training. All your codebases are belong to us.
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- nordcode 1mo agoHow do you think does Microsoft start to do some thing better? At least cut slop form windows or put more effort in gh?
- sidibe 1mo agoNever going to try it, sorry for anyone at cursor who was excited about what they were working on.
- Degorath 1mo agoDoes it support jujutsu natively?
- tomasreimers 1mo agoWe are very interested in this. If anyone can put us in touch with the JJ maintainers we would love to chat!
- Degorath 1mo agoUnfortunately I wouldn't know how to do that. But just saying that I would probably argue against any new forge at my workplace if it didn't adopt the jujutsu model for changes. While agents can wrangle git better than 90% of developers, jujutsu just works much better for both.
- nikole9696 1mo agoCursor, which is now owned by Elon, who tried very hard to get all manner of data about citizens with his intrusions? I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks this isn't a great idea. He'll use it to feed Grok. I'm not a big fan of Github right now either but I wouldn't consider this alternative due to its ownership chain.
- inquirerGeneral 1mo agoI love how people like you actually think Elon actually wanted your data.
- qlte 1mo agoDon't really get the incredulity considering he needs to justify the tens of billions already spent on AI infrastructure by, you know, training a model or two ...
- nrmitchi 1mo agoIf 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 or otherwise illegal, and then you can try to sue me over it later".
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- potamic 29d agoI dunno how it is in America, but in my country if the largest individual donor was granted carte blanche to run his own department within the administration, with his own people, answerable only to the head of the government, it would cause a helluva lot of outrage.
- mcny 1mo ago> You must have a valid mobile phone number to sign up. SMS charges may apply.
- adeelk93 1mo agoReduces barrier of entry for mass AI spam, so I’m for it
- shimman 1mo agoAs we all know spam text messages aren't a thing since it's very costly and hard to spoof cell phone numbers.
- tredre3 1mo agoThose kind of SMS check usually ban voip providers. So you need a real line or a prepaid cellphone, and it can presumably only be used once or twice on this service before the number is "burned". Such checks, although not perfect, do prevent a huge amount of spam and bots by having a very real cost for bots/spammers, and essentially no cost (other than their privacy) for the user.
- simondotau 29d agoEven a one cent toll is enough to change the economics of many bot behaviours.
- romanovcode 1mo agoTried to register: > Access blocked, please contact support. No link to contact support, on help page no way to contact the actual support. Classic Musk tech.
- newspaper1 1mo agoThis was posted yesterday and now it’s being reposted and all of the old comments have had their timestamps reset. What gives mods? Did Musk request this?
- dbbk 1mo agoGiven Grok was just caught uploading whole codebases and sensitive .envs without permission, how can anyone possibly trust this?
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- verandaguy 1mo agoNot GP, but personally I don’t trust claude. Work does for some reason, and work strongly encourages using it, but i stay far away outside of that. I think every product in this space should have to clear a very high bar for trust rather than making it a race to the bottom with whataboutisms.
- nullbio 29d agoAnthropic use Deepseek behind the scenes instead of their own models, whenever they feel like it. People have shared outputs from Claude that show internal tool errors the models have accidently returned with Deepseek error codes.
- rnewme 29d agoI'm curious about this, where'd you learn that?
- nullbio 29d agoThere were quite a few people from the AI community on X sharing screenshots.
- verandaguy 29d agoI don't know how this relates to my comment, but sure, I guess?
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- ignaciovdk 1mo agoI don't know, my gut says that this is going to end in a bad way. I signed up, I think but wasn't sure if I needed to buy Cursor, or Origin came with a subscription, so confused. For now Arc is staying in Github: https://github.com/Basekick-Labs/arc https://github.com/Basekick-Labs/arc
- xvilka 1mo agoInstead 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/ https://radicle.dev/ [2] https://radicle.network/nodes/seed.radicle.dev/rad%3Az3gqcJUoA1n9HaHKufZs5FCSGazv5 https://radicle.network/nodes/seed.radicle.dev/rad%3Az3gqcJU... [3] https://forgejo.org/ https://forgejo.org/ [4] https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/main/FederationRoadmap.md https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/m...
- quaintdev 1mo agohttps://tangled.sh https://tangled.sh
- oooyay 29d agoTangled is good, I have a repository hosted with them. Both they and Radicle lack private repositories though. Forgejo and Codeberg I look at as more like hobby projects. I would not trust them with my code.
- gritzko 1mo agogit 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 https://replicated.live/blog/crdt
- arjie 1mo agoI just use git with a remote and a custom CI system. The whole thing is trivial to build. All these forgejo etc are kind of over complicated software. Open Office of the modern world.
- cryo32 1mo agoGitHub 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.
- seany 1mo agoif we're totally switching tooling, lets at least go to mercurial instead
- gaigalas 1mo agoIf we're switching, we should probably go to fossil instead.
- yjftsjthsd-h 1mo agoThat 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.
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- WorldMaker 1mo agoGitHub's wikis are just git repositories with folders full of Markdown files. That's the easiest thing to pull out of GitHub. Just git clone the wiki repo. At that point I often just use a git headless merge to merge the second repo into the main repo under a docs/wiki/ folder or similar. As I recall, in GHE I remember finding that you could even turn off the repo's wiki at that point and then reset it to point to your docs/wiki/ folder and still have the Wiki interface but pointing it to a branch in the same repository. That was a while ago and I don't know if it is still supported in GHE. I also remember it was work managing that wiki branch because Wikis didn't directly support PR workflows if you have branch protection policies. Also from the documentation it doesn't look like it is supported in Public GitHub right now, which seems a shame to me, as someone who likes all documentation in the same repo as the source. I haven't needed Wikis in public GitHub much, so I haven't tried to do anything like point them to a main repo branch.
- s09dfhks 1mo agoMy assumption is x.ai will be training on any code hosted here
- nomilk 1mo agoSame for all other AI companies too.
- sajithdilshan 1mo agoWhat do you think github copilot is trained on?
- tensor 1mo agoNot on my private repos? That would be.... very illegal.
- simondotau 29d agoWhen has that ever stopped any of the big AI corps?
- tensor 29d agoOutside of Musk companies? All the time? Google workspace doesn't train on your email. Gmail does. Any b2b targeted services absolutely protects customer IP. It's one of the most basic requirements.
- simondotau 29d agoAll of the major companies have been caught training on illegally acquired data. The law doesn't matter to any of them. It makes sense that Google would care about their own paying customers, but that's for commercial reasons, not for any particular concern for the law.
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- ramoz 1mo agoPhysical custody of our work is going to be an important discussion for industry. ie where does your code live and how do you access it? Every agent platform is moving toward you living with them, logging into them, working on their remote computers, only accessing your code and product artifacts with them. This is the caveat we will see with full push-to-cloud swing early on. Maybe agentic no-code is the natural evolution but this push is happening too early and naively imo. It all feels wrong and I hope industry remains as dissatisfied with this type of lock-in as we’ve always been.
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- SoKamil 1mo agoInteresting that they still brand as Cursor instead of SpaceXAI
- mjhay 1mo agoI was just thinking how I wished GitHub was part of a csam generation company owned by a Nazi. This sounds great!
- geogra4 1mo agoMan, I was disappointed - hoped this used something like darcs under the hood
- jjice 1mo agoI can't imagine reaching for this instead of GitLab, GitTea, or one of the many other more mature and open source alternatives. Going for the managers, directors, and CTOs that make decisions and face no consequences if they negatively impact the team, I guess.
- jm4 1mo agoCould you imagine a CTO adopting this thing? They would have to be a complete moron. Yeah, let's standardize on this thing peddled by a lying crook that has fewer features than any of the alternatives. The only people who are going to use this are SpaceX, Tesla and a few developers who also use Grok.
- xpct 1mo agoI think we're not the target audience here. It's probably another type of vendor lock-in gamble, aiming for less tech-savvy folks, who rely on Cursor integrations, and to normalize the platform in their eyes.
- DrBenCarson 1mo agoIf you're willing to trust them with all your source code...kudos, I really wish I had your level of trust and delusion
- dude250711 1mo agoVibe-slop needs protecting?
- DrBenCarson 1mo agoAsk sama
- smrtinsert 1mo agoThere is no way I'm giving my codebase to Elon. I don't care if its a petclinic scaffold in java 1.0, absolutely 0 chance of me using this.
- tensor 1mo agoToday, SpaceX launches Origin. Tomorrow, as people complain about bugs and missing features "We're not a software company, we plan to build a solar forge around Jupiter and just generate all the possible source codes in the universe, so we're no longer focusing on Origin because it's an outdated concept."
- nakas1 1mo agoif its another place that offers free computer through their version of GitHub Actions I;d call it a win.
- bhanu786 1mo agoIn 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?
- zuzululu 1mo agowhich fanless "mini pc" can run a github clone on my local network? ideally proxmox support so i can use it as a mini lab for other things
- crudgen 1mo agoI would only host worthless stuff there
- poilcn 1mo agoI was annoyed seeing unskippable "ad" within Cursor about it. Looked like a huge banner "give us control over all your code" with only one visible button to consent
- b112 1mo agoIt's so strange. Sad even. Microsoft has never been the most competent, but the fact that people are just incapable of stabalizing github is just bizarre. At a certain point, just working there will become a death knell for anyone's career. And it certainly must be getting harder to hire good people. The spiral will be relentless, and I see no work to stop it. Sad.
- tornikeo 1mo ago> Deep integrations with Cursor No thanks. I want GitHub alternative, not Cursor with source control attached.
- dhruv3006 1mo agoHow will you ever make up for the network effect that GitHub has?
- throw1234567891 1mo agoNever going to sign up based on the association to Elon Musk.
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- gjvc 1mo agoand to think we let phabricator wither on the vine...
- viraj_shah 1mo agoI'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.
- throwaw12 1mo agoI wonder how Gitlab slipped this obvious AI market opportunity, they had very good position in code self hosting used by so many enterprises. just add repo-level agents, org-level agents and done. they could have got 50B valuation by now
- zikohh 1mo agoGitlab SaaS released features at a slow cadence as end user. Great big ball of mud prob from a dev pov. As an end user it worked but never saw new features released
- shampto3 1mo agoGitLab already has AI agents and agentic workflows. See their "Duo Agent Platform" https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-duo-agent-platform/ https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-duo-agent-platform/
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- DrBenCarson 1mo agohttps://sourcehut.org/ https://sourcehut.org/ https://codeberg.org/ https://codeberg.org/
- semiinfinitely 1mo agothanks I hate it
- Jare 1mo agoIf by now you're willing to make EM the guardian of your code, nothing I can say would dissuade you.
- timetraveller26 1mo agoSuch an insult to vibe code a new github and then expect developers to handle code to them so they can train on it.
- dude250711 1mo agoWho trains on post-2022 code?
- trollbridge 1mo agoAh, another post about Cursor. About half of the comments will be generic criticisms of Twitter, SpaceX, etc. for things that may or may not have happened, or personal complaints about Elon Musk.
- misiti3780 1mo agoexhausting to watch!
- swah 1mo agoNo free tier, surprised..
- qainsights 1mo agoIt is not a GH alternative, unless it is available for everyone with unlimited private and public repos. :)
- mrorigo 1mo agoGitHub sync = defeat?
- muhammadusman 1mo agoDue to the recent Github outages, I've slowly started moving to Gitlab, they've been around longer and seem to have a decent track record.
- tintor 1mo agoNot sharing my private git repos with Elon Musk owned company.
- timetraveller26 1mo agoIt sure worked for Meta's Threads
- wateralien 1mo agoThe main thing that makes GitHub the default is that almost every other service considers it the default. Launching a better product won't change that.
- devdoshi 1mo agoupvote for WAL + object storage (a very powerful combination I am finally seeing more adoption of) and a lot of interesting historical details. I'm fortunate I don't rely on any forge for my solo work except for backups. In my personal stack I just have a log and content-addressed object kv storage, which can project to git if needed, or can be committed to git as files. And docker if I need isolation for CI/CD. The most interesting alternative to me is atomic.dev (check their very informative blog posts) but I'll be keeping an eye on all of them.
- manasharit 1mo ago[flagged]
- 13415 1mo agoThey couldn't even pay me to use that product.
- xyst 1mo agoNo thanks. I’ll stick to self hosted forgejo.
- mawadev 1mo agoThis is actually pretty good! It is the perfect containment chamber
- c0decracker 1mo agoWill they train on all the code hosted there? :)
- faramarz 1mo agoahh so thats the game plan: train codebases even if they are not written in or by by Cursor agents.
- brunoborges 1mo ago[flagged]
- sajithdilshan 1mo agoI really hope this would be a worthy opponent to Github. Microsoft needs a good competition to light a fire under their ass to pay more attention to Github.
- smcleod 1mo agoMusk is one of the last people I'd trust to centralise all my code with.
- genxy 1mo agoSo first they steal the source code in bulk, and now they are like fuck it, just send us your source code? Musk does indeed play 1d checkers.
- exe34 1mo agoHas GitHub made it harder for them to scrape to train on?
- hahahaa 1mo agoSeems like a boring bet. The Github way of working is from the anthropocene era. We need new primitives for agents invokved in tech solutions. Pull requests? Issues? CI? They all seem like they'll go away. Cursor should be leading the new things that replace them.
- LeBit 1mo agoA Musk controlled company to look at my private repos? Let me thing about it. No.
- jimt1234 1mo agoIs it just me or is this thing just a poor man's version of GitHub?
- dzonga 1mo agokinda crazy how Microsoft just destroyed the Github goodwill. also crazy how the noisemakers about rails scaling for GitHub have gone quite all of a sudden i.e Github being on the main rails branch. anyways the future is decentralized - a developer from say Russia/ Ukraine (Crimea), Iran etc - wouldn't be able to access GitHub but surely they can access decentralized repos without the permission of not being from a forbidden country as if they're at fault for their country's ills.
- Rover222 1mo agoKind of confusing people won't use this because they don't trust Musk, but has any other major platform even tried to open source their algorithms the way he has with X? I get hating his politics, and his predictions are often behind schedule, but he certainly says what he thinks and isn't in some shady user data markting business like zuckerberg. Anyone who trusts Altman over Musk is... I don't know. Give me the autist over the sociopath when it comes to handling my data.
- gigatexal 1mo agoHmmmm not sure I want to put my code in Elon’s hands. I’d rather let super flakey Microsoft/Github have it, still. That man and his companies need less influence and he needs less control not more of jt.
- ChicagoDave 1mo agoI wouldn’t push someone else’s code into a Musk-owned repository.
- drusepth 1mo agoI feel like using a service like this that's owned by SpaceX (and, therefore, in close proximity to X / Musk / etc) would be even more of a supply chain risk than GitHub occasionally going down.
- ferrule 1mo agoThe ecosystem lock-in is the real moat. Hosting git is easy — replacing the integrations that every team depends on is the hard part.
- vivekyyy 1mo agoThere's so many GitHub alternatives at this point, I just saw Dorsey is making one too. Why is that the trendy thing to build now?
- xpct 1mo agoBeing trendy by itself feeds the trend. Also, likely, data.
- forrestthewoods 1mo agoI don’t want a GitHub alternative. I want a Git replacement. Please make a version control system that isn’t overwhelmingly mediocre (at best).
- nicholasking 1mo agoNo actions replacement means this is a nothingburger in a lettuce wrap.
- maxlin 1mo agoI 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.
- jheriko 29d ago[dead]
- alexwrich 29d ago[flagged]
- nikolay 29d agoWhat's worse than GitHub? - Its vibe-coded clone!
- mskkm 29d agoFeels like the more interesting trend is that Git itself is becoming an implementation detail.
- BatteryMountain 29d agoI just self-host Gitea. I made own build server (with all the SDK's I need) that runs next to it and I use SeaweedFS for storage. Works amazingly well. So I have automated builds and artifact storage for my git repos's. It all lighting fast too.
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- mistercheph 29d agooh yeah i'd love to feed these guys training data
- mixxit 29d agoScrew you elon
- protocolture 29d agofeels kind of embracey
- funlang 29d ago[flagged]
- aiedwardyi 24d ago[flagged]