Cursor, backed by SpaceX's $6B acquisition of Anysphere, launched Origin—a Git Forge designed for AI Agent-scale development. Origin mirrors GitHub repositories (keeping GitHub as source-of-truth), enables direct agent collaboration within codebases, and integrates with CI/CD tools (Vercel, Depot, Buildkite). This targets GitHub's reliability issues: 257 incidents in 12 months (48 major; avg. one per week), with GitHub Actions experiencing 57 failures. Early adopters like Zig language have already migrated to alternatives, signaling market appetite for GitHub competitors.
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