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throw03172019
Good day to launch. GitHub had issues as normal.
granzymes
If the goal was to launch on a day when GitHub had issues, most days are good launch days.
vzaliva
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.
runtime_terror
Same. Cancelled the day the Elon acquisition was announced.
freepiai
I'm a little late on replying here, but I'm building www.freepi.ai (it's ad+training powered inference). It's totally free, very fast, using the Pi harness and right now DeepSeek V4 flash. Would love if you gave it a shot!
Tostino
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.

wellthisisgreat
Genuinely curious - why does Cursor still exist?

What’s the point? What value does it add VS VSCode with Claude and such?

smb06
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.
jermaustin1
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.

colesantiago
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.

aabhay
With 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.

JSR_FDED
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.
Jackobrien
Diabolical timing. Incredible. Too bad it requires mirroring GitHub.
internet2000
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.

dimbletimbers
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?

roughly
Boy, if you want to trust your company’s codebase to xAI, I don’t know what to tell you except good luck and Godspeed. GitHub’s been terrible lately, but the answer surely isn’t to hitch your wagon to Elon’s AI bet.
pianopatrick
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.