Re:Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
by esafak on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @02:35PM
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How long term are we talking here? Github was acquired in 2018...
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Re:Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
by chris_money202 on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @03:25PM
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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.