Cursor launches Origin code hosting platform as GitHub outage exposes opening in AI coding race

kept by eddie aug 18

Cursor launched Origin, an AI‑native code‑hosting platform that mirrors GitHub, aiming to capture developer attention as GitHub’s reliability falters amid rising AI‑agent usage.

Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
Cursor unveils Origin, a self‑hosted GitHub‑like platform that integrates AI‑powered code assistance to offer developers an alternative to traditional source‑hosting services.
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We're launching code storage and git hosting. Origin gives teams and agents a place to host, review, and collaborate on code. Available th
Cursor announces Origin, a code storage and git hosting service for teams and AI agents, launching this fall.
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Twenty Years of Stacking Commits — jd:/dev/blog
Stacked commits, not monolithic PRs, are the correct unit of code review—a truth Gerrit knew in 2008 that AI's speed and tooling like Mergify Stack are now forcing GitHub to finally admit with its native stacked PRs feature.
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In praise of the stacked pull request
Stacked pull requests, managed with tools like Graphite, keep code review fast and team velocity high by breaking large work into small, independent, mergeable units.
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Introducing Vercel Connect - Vercel
Vercel Connect replaces long-lived provider tokens with runtime, scoped, short-lived credentials accessed via OIDC for agents and apps.
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