GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform

52 pointsposted 9 hours ago
by KGC3D
(status.cursor.com)

18 Comments

TowerTall

2 hours ago

I just opened cursor and was presented with a modal dialog with a "Try Origin" button and zero option to dismiss it. Had to nuke the cursor process to get it to go away. At least they didn't show it again at relaunch.

johntash

5 hours ago

I assume it's talking about syncing/migrating from github -> origin? And not that github is hte actual upstream of origin? That would be great though

techgnosis

5 hours ago

So they announce this to try and take people away from GitHub, but it also depended on GitHub? Am I reading this irony correctly?

vachina

4 hours ago

In this field rebranding/rebadging things is very common. Cursor is no stranger, they tried to pass off Kimi 2.5 as their own awhile ago.

jjice

2 hours ago

Pass off? They fine tuned ann open model and were very clear and public about it.

InGoodFaith

an hour ago

For Composer 2 they got called out on it and only acknowledged after enough criticism.

Here is a link to Lee Robinson saying they will do better to be more transparent with future releases.

> Agree with the feedback we should have mentioned the base up front, we will do that for the next model!

https://x.com/leerob/status/2035073197561745579

neya

2 hours ago

No they were not. Especially if you were an end user, you wouldn't have been able to tell it wasn't their own model. That exactly isn't being clear nor public.

CTRL+F "kimi" 0 results

https://cursor.com/blog/composer-2

dmix

4 hours ago

If you read the status page:

> This incident affected: Automations, Review Agents, Cloud Agents, and Origin.

Cursor has built a code review bot (https://cursor.com/bugbot) which integrates with Github similar to Greptile/Coderabbit. Origin has a feature which imports existing github repos to onboard new users. Automation and cloud agents is self explanatory.

tuananh

3 hours ago

from what i read, its just that lots of old features are integrated tightly with github are affected. that is to be expected right?

deepsun

4 hours ago

GitHub example shows clearly that service reliability is really overrated. No one is seriously going to leave GitHub because of reliability. Maybe there's some lone power users, but most companies (mine included) don't even discuss it.

Same as Slack: if it down -- it's down, we just wait.

sitzkrieg

4 hours ago

i know of at least a few big orgs that had enough and went on prem. and switched off slack even

dmix

4 hours ago

This is a weird comment to make as it presumes there's a real alternative. There is barely any real competition yet. I'm sure Cursor won't be the first to start putting pressure on them.

I wouldn't be surprised if Linear starts pushing further into Github's markets as well. They already have a better diff engine than Github.

djfdat

6 hours ago

Title phrasing sounds like Cursor Origin is GitHub's new Git platform.

It's not, the the good old Cursor's (the IDE) new Git platform.

swyx

3 hours ago

i see how you could say that but absolutely no one is confused

Sha1rholder

41 minutes ago

Tbh this wording actually made Google Translate render it as “GitHub’s new Git platform.” I got confused and had to look at the original English text to understand what it meant.

sa46

2 hours ago

I was confused. The title is bad. “its” is ambiguous and usually refers to the first subject in this sentence structure.