Cursor Launches 'Origin' Code Hosting Platform As GitHub Alternative (venturebeat.com) 19
Cursor has launched Origin, a GitHub-style code hosting platform built directly into its AI coding environment. The company is initially positioning Origin as a low-risk layer on top of GitHub, keeping GitHub as the "source of truth," but the launch landed just as a major GitHub outage highlighted growing concerns about reliability in the age of AI-generated code. VentureBeat reports: Cursor began rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, to paid users on Monday morning. Roughly three and a half hours later, GitHub's status page lit up with what became a six-hour-and-forty-two-minute global degradation -- error rates near 20% across pull requests, issues and the API, and near 50% on archive and raw file downloads, according to GitHub's incident log. Enterprise single sign-on went down with it: SAML, OIDC, SCIM provisioning and Team Sync all failed. So did Copilot.
The developer internet did what the developer internet does. "You can now host your repos in Cursor Origin and deploy to Vercel via Cursor Origin which is itself hosted on Vercel," Vercel chief executive Guillermo Rauch posted on X. "And unlike GitHub, it's online [smile emoji]" Asked why he was smiling, Rauch replied: "trying to make light of the situation. We ourselves are stuck because of github rn!" Matt Palmer, who works at Cursor, quote-tweeted his own company's launch with the day's best line: "We were going to ship this earlier, but GitHub was down." A GitHub outage, in other words, delayed the launch of a GitHub competitor.
Product launches get locked weeks in advance, and no evidence suggests Cursor timed this one. But the coincidence did the company an enormous favor, because it dramatized the argument Origin exists to make. For eighteen years, choosing where to host your team's source code has been the least interesting decision an engineering organization makes. Cursor is betting that AI agents have made it interesting again -- and for technical decision makers, that is the real news here. Not a new product, but a new procurement question with a governance problem attached.
The developer internet did what the developer internet does. "You can now host your repos in Cursor Origin and deploy to Vercel via Cursor Origin which is itself hosted on Vercel," Vercel chief executive Guillermo Rauch posted on X. "And unlike GitHub, it's online [smile emoji]" Asked why he was smiling, Rauch replied: "trying to make light of the situation. We ourselves are stuck because of github rn!" Matt Palmer, who works at Cursor, quote-tweeted his own company's launch with the day's best line: "We were going to ship this earlier, but GitHub was down." A GitHub outage, in other words, delayed the launch of a GitHub competitor.
Product launches get locked weeks in advance, and no evidence suggests Cursor timed this one. But the coincidence did the company an enormous favor, because it dramatized the argument Origin exists to make. For eighteen years, choosing where to host your team's source code has been the least interesting decision an engineering organization makes. Cursor is betting that AI agents have made it interesting again -- and for technical decision makers, that is the real news here. Not a new product, but a new procurement question with a governance problem attached.
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Don't think it will work (Score:4, Interesting)
And Gitlab actually has nice features; this looks like a weekend project.
Add to that I don't think your average enterprise is going to be all that hot to rent what's supposed to be boring infra from the Space Nazi.
Although the fact that Microsoft can't seem to keep Github operational is starting to leave an opening, so depending on how incompetent they get, maybe there's an opening there.
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Name master branches "Master" (Score:2, Troll)
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It's funny how triggered bigots get from simple courtesies.
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This change is a heap of meaningless shit that benefited NOONE but created work for MILLIONS OF US, foisted on us by gullible woke morons led by one ignorant woke Google bint.
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Don't be so ignorant.
Trust CursorSpaceXAIMetaHitlerCSAM! (Score:1)
Sure that'll be much better!
Who? (Score:2)
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Github is no longer a social hub (Score:1)
The original purpose of GitHub was for social collaboration. Since Microsoft's aquisition it has changed a lot to align with it's goals. TLDR, it is currently first and foremost a delivery mechanism for copilot token consumption. You try to report an issue on a project, and a maintainer will use something like speckit to "fix" a bug with no interaction often making a bug worse. Given this reality, making alternatives GitHub to push token usage will be extremely lucrative.
Microsoft got their money's worth w
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"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Wait. No. I guess *they* won instead.
How about take that retired Win 10 box . (Score:4, Insightful)
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How about take that retired Win 10 box, download the git documentation, install Linux on the box and setup your own server for your LAN?
You could.
Just like for your music collection, you could hit 300 used CD shops, rip them all, have your own backup system, etc. etc., etc. Sure.
Yet somehow, Spotify exists ...