vb-8448
16 minutes ago
What a timing!
I wonder if they were waiting for a major githut incident :D
jvwww
3 minutes ago
You don't have to wait long for that to happen!
Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
54 pointsposted 4 hours ago
by tomasreimers18 Comments
dmix
14 minutes ago
I was waiting for an AI company to do this. The opportunity to disrupt Github is very apparent right now.
jjcm
3 hours ago
I 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
3 hours ago
Well you see, there's this thing called an embedding and it sits inside a vector space and when attention is applied it disambiguates
tomasreimers
4 hours ago
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!
jjcm
3 hours ago
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?
peterldowns
9 minutes ago
The idea is that it's like Github but it stays up even as your commit/CI frequency increases. As a customer I'm stoked and looking forward to fully switching over as that's exactly what I want.
dbbk
18 minutes ago
There seems to be basically nothing new here
guywithahat
10 minutes ago
This 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.
nerdypepper
4 hours ago
is 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
4 hours ago
Currently 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.
ChrisArchitect
an hour ago
Been 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.
croes
4 hours ago
How about an original and distinguishable name?
Then again, what did I expect from a company named cursor.
maherbeg
4 hours ago
This 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
4 hours ago
Then 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
3 hours ago
If you google Cursor they dominate the whole first page
Surely they have a chance of doing it again with Origin
rvz
4 hours ago
Let'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.