Cursor Origin: GitHub Rival Launches Amid Outage

Cursor has launched Origin, a new code hosting platform, directly into its editor. This launch happened on the same day GitHub experienced a major outage. Origin aims to compete with GitHub, which has dominated software development for nearly two decades. The platform supports bidirectional sync with GitHub and offers full pull request functionality. It also includes an "Ask Cursor" feature for AI-assisted code review. What's interesting is Origin's focus on AI agents. It claims performance benchmarks of about 296,000 clones per hour and 22 commits per second per repository. These numbers are built for AI agents that iterate much faster than human developers. Origin also tracks structural metadata, providing an audit trail for AI-generated code. The bottom line is that Origin is trying to integrate the entire development process, from prompting to deployment, into one environment designed for AI agents. This signals the growing importance of AI agents in software development.