Cursor Origin(cursor.com)
46 pointsby peterspath2 hours ago12 comments
  • aabhay2 hours ago
    With the Grok code incident in recent memory I have zero interest in trusting our company’s crown jewels with this service.

    Agents are here. Just self host and let the agents help cover your ass in network config, HA, whatever.

  • JSR_FDED2 hours ago
    One of the few areas in my life i have control over is who I associate with and who I spend my money with. Elon ain’t it.
  • throw031720192 hours ago
    Good day to launch. GitHub had issues as normal.
    • granzymes2 hours ago
      If the goal was to launch on a day when GitHub had issues, most days are good launch days.
  • roughly2 hours ago
    Boy, if you want to trust your company’s codebase to xAI, I don’t know what to tell you except good luck and Godspeed. GitHub’s been terrible lately, but the answer surely isn’t to hitch your wagon to Elon’s AI bet.
  • internet20002 hours ago
    Awesome stuff, about time.

    A common refrain in the commentariat is "if AI makes you so more productive, where's all the new ambitious software?" Here you are, here's an AI assisted Github clone.

    • dimbletimbersan hour ago
      Not sure how well “new ambitious software” and “____ clone” go together there.

      Seems like even most critics would agree LLMs are capable of producing impressive-for-the-timescale clones of existing software, but is that valuable?

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  • Jackobrien2 hours ago
    Diabolical timing. Incredible. Too bad it requires mirroring GitHub.
  • verdverm2 hours ago
    previously discussed today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334209

    Ironically this had an issue because of GitHub downtime?

    https://status.cursor.com/incidents/l9h9vrd726jv

    • wxw2 hours ago
      Perhaps has to do with the Github sync feature, https://cursor.com/docs/origin/mirror-github
      • verdverm2 hours ago
        doesn't matter, it's DOA anyway, Elon is bad for your brand, hosting your project with Elon is a sure way to have people pass on it, and possibly a way your private repos end up in an Ai training set. These people cannot be trusted
        • Georgelemental2 hours ago
          As opposed to Micro$oft, which everyone loves and trusts?
          • verdverman hour ago
            Fwiw, Microsoft has not been as destructive to GitHub as people predicted. The complaint these days is around uptime, which is understood to be an effort to migrate to Azure.

            It's one thing to have low quality products, it's another to have a low ethics leader. They can both be hated, but it is different.

            GitHub downtime is a matter which can be resolved, not so sure about Elon's antics. But this is all besides the actual reasons GitHub has staying power. (network, actions, migrating git hosts is a significant endeavor that doesn't add value to your users)

  • vzaliva2 hours ago
    I’ve finally cancelled my Cursor subscription. It was an interesting product, but the fact that most interesting features only work with per-token pricing, not Cursor and Codex subscriptions, is a bummer. As to their Composer models, they were good for simpler coding tasks, but after the company purchase, they will probably end up merged with Grok, and I do not want to pay nor contribute to Elon Musk’s businesses.
    • runtime_terror2 hours ago
      Same. Cancelled the day the Elon acquisition was announced.
  • Tostino2 hours ago
    Wouldn't touch it at this point because of the association.

    With as bad as GitHub has gotten, I can see moving...but not to here.

  • colesantiago2 hours ago
    Isn’t Codeberg a better alternative to this?

    Cursor / SpaceX will just have free rein to just train on your hosted code if you use Cursor Origin.

    • neuronexmachina2 hours ago
      I imagine Codeberg's LLM ban might make it a poor fit for many Cursor users.
  • pianopatrickan hour ago
    now 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.

  • wellthisisgreat2 hours ago
    Genuinely curious - why does Cursor still exist?

    What’s the point? What value does it add VS VSCode with Claude and such?

    • jermaustin1an hour ago
      This just reminded me to cancel it. I got pretty annoyed back in March when I did a comparison between Cursor and Claude Code to see if Claude had gotten better, and my cursor burned $200 unsupervised on extra credits in a single session. I should have been paying attention.

      I've left Claude Code with Fable running all night and it not only didn't run out of my Weekly Claude allowance, it didn't even run out of my weekly fable allowance. Claude Code has been the best coding harness for the money.

    • bhouston2 hours ago
      I have been a long time Cursor user but it is really expensive even if it is convenient to switch models. I recently switched to just Max on Claude and Max on Codex. That is cheaper than Cursor if you use it a lot.
      • polishdude202 hours ago
        That hasn't been my experience but maybe it's because in cursor I'm really only using the auto feature all the time. It's been almost a month of daily usage and I'm still only at like 70% quota.
        • bhoustonan hour ago
          I find that auto wrecks my code base and makes stupid mistakes. I find for routine tasks I need at least sonnet and then it is reliable.
    • smb06an hour ago
      It was first/fast to the market, well before Claude and such and it is hard to displace tools once they become entrenched in your workflows.