Osmani argued agentic coding terminals and most desktop apps are "too low-bandwidth for what agentic harnesses can actually do" and said he's excited for "cloud-native harnesses that work on anything, accessible from anywhere," replying to Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison making a related point about terminal interfaces; 254 likes and 43.6K views at about 32 hours old when read.
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Cursor launched its own git host three days after SpaceX closed a $60 billion buyout of the company, and users are weighing the association.
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Cursor launches Origin, its own git-hosting forge, as ownership backlash builds on Hacker News
Cursor shipped Origin today: a git forge built into the coding-agent vendor itself, for creating and hosting repositories, pushing and pulling with standard git, mirroring an existing GitHub repo, browsing and searching code, and opening,…
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