| ▲ | tomasreimers a day ago |
| Hi all, my name is Tomas. I am one of the developers on Origin, and I was one of the founders of Graphite (https://graphite.com). Happy to answer any questions about Origin or source control in general! |
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| ▲ | dbbk 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Given Grok was just caught uploading whole codebases and sensitive .envs without permission, how can anyone possibly trust this? |
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| ▲ | gjsman-1000 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Given Claude was just caught hacking companies as it pleased, how can anyone possibly trust this? | | |
| ▲ | verandaguy 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Not GP, but personally I don’t trust claude. Work does for some reason, and work strongly encourages using it, but i stay far away outside of that. I think every product in this space should have to clear a very high bar for trust rather than making it a race to the bottom with whataboutisms. |
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| ▲ | guhcampos an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's been 5 hours and instead of "any" questions, you have only been happy to answer the 1 question that hasn't put you in a tight spot. Honestly, that does not look too good for you or the offering - and this is coming from someone that just chose Cursor over Claude Code a week ago. |
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| ▲ | victorbjorklund 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Do you have full trust in that Elon would never abuse the access to sensitive data? What protections are in place to prevent Elon from stealing data? |
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| ▲ | arjie an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Would love if you focus on performance. A big reason I have to have custom software is that agents can act much faster than humans but SaaS software is usually not well-designed enough to handle high RPS so rate-limits are low. I can easily outperform commercial hosts myself. At the least, it would be sick to have separate tenancy so that I could absolutely slam my own instance without having to deal with some other chump complaining. |
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| ▲ | jjcm a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What I don't understand from the blog post is what's different in this offering than github - is it just the agentic tie ins where I can ask my agent to make changes while browsing the PR? Are there any fundamental differences, ie ways of working that solve the worktrees problem? |
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| ▲ | tomasreimers a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Expect a lot more from us. We wanted to release a beta so people could start experimenting with our scalability and extensibility themselves. Over the next few weeks, you can expect a handful of features starting to change source control to better understand and work with agents. | | |
| ▲ | skissane 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Are there any plans for compatibility with GitHub's APIs? I have a lot of dev tooling which assumes code is stored on public GitHub and/or GitHubEnterprise. This produces some degree of lock-in, in that all that code would have to be rewritten to migrate to something else. (Yes, AIs can help, but they still don't make migration effortless.) The major Git hosters tend to implement roughly the same concepts, albeit with lots of little variations. It would be great if there were some sort of standardised API everyone implemented. In the absence of that, it makes sense for people to emulate the incumbent's APIs as a de facto standard, just like how other vendors copy OpenAI's APIs for talking to LLMs. | | |
| ▲ | justincormack 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | It seems to have 2 way sync of PRs, issues, issue comments etc, so it must be pretty much the same data model, so they could probably have a compatible API. |
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| ▲ | huflungdung 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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| ▲ | dbbk a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | There seems to be basically nothing new here | | |
| ▲ | hungryhobbit 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Except it promises not to crash regularly. | | |
| ▲ | chris_money202 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | GitHub is crashing due to scaling pressure. Something GH is much more equipped to solve long term. | | |
| ▲ | theplatman 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | are they? given this has been happening frequently over past year and there's been minimal clear communication on their end on how they plan to address this | | |
| ▲ | chris_money202 32 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Azure is at capacity; GH offers a lot of services for free or heavily discounted. Especially when its public repo. These aren't profit generating for Microsoft, so they are not the priority with the capacity Azure has available. GH is probably struggling with these capacity and budget constraints. They also still have some AWS and non-azure DCs in use. Once Azure's massive spend is online things will slowly get better. |
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| ▲ | esafak an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | How long term are we talking here? Github was acquired in 2018... | | |
| ▲ | chris_money202 25 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I think GH/Microsoft got caught by surprise to the huge usage number increase as a result of LLMs. Microsoft started rolling all of its DCs to OpenAI around 2019-2020 to begin LLM training, then we saw a huge GH increase in late 2024 and Azure was just out of capacity for infinite GH scale. | | |
| ▲ | esafak 11 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I guess we should all do our part to alleviate poor old Microsoft's strain by migrating to better services. I intend to. |
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| ▲ | logicchains 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | They're really not, given they're running on Azure. | | |
| ▲ | mlnj an hour ago | parent [-] | | Is there any data on Azure being terrible with stability? Would love to see data than anecdotal stories. | | |
| ▲ | gtirloni 22 minutes ago | parent [-] | | There isn't and if there is it probably doesn't matter in GH's case. People are just speculating with zero knowledge. I'd never put my data on anything owned by Musk. Period. I'd take lower availability from GitHub or a worse alternative (feature-wise) than move Origin. |
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| ▲ | peterldowns a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | The idea is that it's like Github but it stays up even as your commit/CI frequency increases. As a customer I'm stoked and looking forward to fully switching over as that's exactly what I want. | | |
| ▲ | owebmaster 17 hours ago | parent [-] | | Calling it a GitHub that works is just preposterous. Cursor/spacetwitterai have no experience keeping a system like that up. | | |
| ▲ | chris_money202 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | It was probably written 95% by an LLM and has only a few people (if any at all) that understand major parts of the system end to end. It will eventually have the same uptime issues as GH (or worse) with less ability to provide stable fixes. |
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| ▲ | autonomousErwin a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What's the biggest differentiator to GitHub (other than uptime). I keep hearing something along the lines of "GitHub for Agents" but would be great to hear from the devs of Origin what they actually think it means in tangible features/functionality? |
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| ▲ | tomasreimers a day ago | parent [-] | | Today, very little. We're intentionally releasing this as a Github alternative where we meet them toe-to-toe on functionality. Over the next few weeks you can expect a lot more from us on integrations with agents, understanding agent-written code (without having to read through all of the code), and automatically getting your PRs to a mergable state. Stay tuned :) | | |
| ▲ | ad_fontes 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | So, a complex, vibe-coded platform that was prematurely pushed out to opportunistically take advantage of GitHub's egg-on-face moment? But it doesn't do anything better? And it's owned by the same guy who routinely takes shortcuts that causes both EVs and rockets to crash? Sign me up! | |
| ▲ | fwip 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | How reassuring to hear that it's an intentional release, rather than totally accidental. | | |
| ▲ | Petersipoi 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Good god. There is that hacker spirit. Who hurt you? | | |
| ▲ | fwip 25 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Probably the ever-increasing corporate homogenization, sanitization, and empty words that are flooding the internet (only accelerated by LLMs, of course). Which, for readers playing along at home, is kind of antithetical to the "hacker spirit." |
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| ▲ | pavlov 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| As a former Tesla customer, I wouldn't buy a toaster from your boss, much less give him access to my code. |
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| ▲ | misiti3780 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | as a very happy tesla customer, i dont know what this guy/girl is talking about! |
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| ▲ | mtaufen 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| There were some cool ideas in https://cursor.com/blog/agent-swarm-model-economics. Should we expect Origin to be a foundation for working with agent swarms? |
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| ▲ | gtirloni 21 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You haven't answered much but I must recognize posting this was brave. |
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| ▲ | jmknoll a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Completely unrelated to Origin, but are there plans for closer integration of Graphite with Cursor? A combined product would be a very compelling product, but not much seems to have changed since the acquisition. |
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| ▲ | tomasreimers a day ago | parent [-] | | Absolutely - we actually built this all on Graphite tech. Have you already linked your Graphite account with Cursor? If so, there might be a surprise! |
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| ▲ | jjmarr 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Are you hiring? |
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| ▲ | icrbow 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Please make it Fediverse/Forgejo/etc compatible. It is 2026 and I'm so tired of silos. |
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| ▲ | christophbusse 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| are you maybe also planning to do cross device/cloud realtime sync like a mutagen feature set kind of? so cloud and local agents can work faster together? this could be helpful on larger cross platform products/repos (maybe too overfitted on my use case, since i am working across multiple devices (ssh works but the repo code sync is a bit of an overhead with multiple agents and devices that could be better)) |
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| ▲ | ronandi 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Why are you doing this? |
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| ▲ | shykes a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Are you interested in integrating with more CI platforms, including less "traditional" ones, like dagger.io? If so I would love to talk :) |
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| ▲ | wahnfrieden a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Thoughts on Musk ownership of the "next GitHub"? |
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| ▲ | BryantD a day ago | parent | next [-] | | I think there are a large number of people I’d trust with my code before Musk, and some of them are already running public Git repo hosting. xAI was caught uploading any repo their coding agent touched to their storage only last month. This isn’t about Musk’s ideology: it’s about his trustworthiness. He sincerely believes he’s the only person who can save the world and that allows him to justify an awful lot of moral lapses. | | | |
| ▲ | pseudosavant a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | What kind of enforceable guarantees could we actually get that xAI won't use our private code for training? Not empty promises, guarantees that have legal teeth. This applies to anything with xAI or Cursor though, especially after last months' revelation that Cursor was uploading every repo it touched. | | |
| ▲ | sandeepkd 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Unless you are an enterprise no one will be offering you such a guarantee. Even with the enterprise the bar has gone down a lot on expectations and compliance, every one is carrying/buying the SOC2 compliance certification these days. | |
| ▲ | vorticalbox 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This question also applies to OpenAI, anthopic, GitHub (Microsoft) and any server you send your data too. | | |
| ▲ | pseudosavant 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Not in the same way really. There aren't examples of OpenAI, Anthropic, or GitHub/Microsoft doing the sketchy things that xAI has been involved with. Those companies care a lot about the reputational damage that would come from flouting their customer's data privacy obligations. Cursor/xAI was making a full copy of every repo it ever touched within the last month, and when caught, just acted like that was an accident. A system to download every repo you touch, and then upload it to persistent cloud storage, doesn't just happen by accident. |
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| ▲ | dbbk 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I mean I think the auto uploading of repos already gives you the answer. This is untrustworthy. |
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| ▲ | jLaForest 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Will code uploaded to Origin be used to train LLMs to generate more accurate child porn via Grok? Seriously how do you stomach working for such a company? |
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| ▲ | throwawaydfasjf 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Why do I need to link github for this? |
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