Cursor, GitLab and Zed agree GitHub is breaking. They disagree on how to rebuild it.
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Debate on rebuilding GitHub touches on developer experience and platform engineering, highly relevant to SDLC trends.
Cursor, now backed by SpaceX after a $60B acquisition, unveiled Origin—a Git-compatible code-hosting platform built for AI-agent-driven workflows. Graphite co-founder Tomas Reimers argues that existing tools like GitHub are breaking under the load of AI-generated code, citing GitHub's 1.4 billion monthly commits and 17 million AI-generated PRs. Origin aims to rebuild developer tooling from scratch, leveraging Graphite's existing customer base (Shopify, Snowflake, Notion, Figma) and Cursor's AI capabilities to address infrastructure that can't keep pace with 10-100x developer productivity.