Cursor Origin
cursor.comWith 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.
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.
previously discussed today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334209
Ironically this had an issue because of GitHub downtime?
Perhaps has to do with the Github sync feature, https://cursor.com/docs/origin/mirror-github
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
As opposed to Micro$oft, which everyone loves and trusts?
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)
Good day to launch. GitHub had issues as normal.
If the goal was to launch on a day when GitHub had issues, most days are good launch days.
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.
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?
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.
Diabolical timing. Incredible. Too bad it requires mirroring GitHub.
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.
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Same. Cancelled the day the Elon acquisition was announced.
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.
Genuinely curious - why does Cursor still exist?
What’s the point? What value does it add VS VSCode with Claude and such?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I imagine Codeberg's LLM ban might make it a poor fit for many Cursor users.