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GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform
- djfdat 2mo agoTitle 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 2mo agoi see how you could say that but absolutely no one is confused
- sa46 2mo agoI was confused. The title is bad. “its” is ambiguous and usually refers to the first subject in this sentence structure.
- Sha1rholder 2mo agoTbh 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.
- techgnosis 2mo agoSo they announce this to try and take people away from GitHub, but it also depended on GitHub? Am I reading this irony correctly?
- vachina 2mo agoIn 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 2mo agoPass off? They fine tuned ann open model and were very clear and public about it.
- neya 2mo agoNo 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 https://cursor.com/blog/composer-2
- jjice 2mo agoAh our miscommunication here is because I was thinking of Composer 2.5, which does. Good point and that's good to know. https://cursor.com/blog/composer-2-5 https://cursor.com/blog/composer-2-5
- InGoodFaith 2mo agoFor 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 https://x.com/leerob/status/2035073197561745579
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- dmix 2mo agoIf 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 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.
- johntash 2mo agoI 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
- deepsun 2mo agoGitHub 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 2mo agoi know of at least a few big orgs that had enough and went on prem. and switched off slack even
- dmix 2mo agoThis 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.
- telotortium 2mo agoGitlab does exist
- _davide_ 2mo ago> No one is seriously going to leave GitHub because of reliability had a discussion with the team yesterday, literally every one wants to leave and looking for the best alternative
- serial_dev 2mo agoWanting to leave is not the same as actually leaving. I can imagine small teams leaving because moving a 10-30 member team is easy. If you have a dev team with 500 members and the team has been on GitHub for 10 years, you will just take it because migrating is just a PITA.
- anaqin 2mo ago> If you have a dev team with 500 members and the team has been on GitHub for 10 years This so closely describes my company. We’re so fed up with GHA that we’re charting an off ramp. It’s been happening in the background for a few months already but whenever there is a major outage I swear we add one more person to effort. Migrating sucks but so does having 500 engineers who can’t do any coding work for a day every {month,week}
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- ChrisArchitect 2mo agoRelated: Cursor Origin Code Hosting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334209 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334209
- tuananh 2mo agofrom what i read, its just that lots of old features are integrated tightly with github are affected. that is to be expected right?
- TowerTall 2mo agoI 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.
- whywhywhywhy 2mo agoMissed opportunity having this being a pro feature, having it free would have paid for itself in training data down the line.