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cursor rivals github with its new project. here's why cursor – the ai coding startup spacex just agreed to buy for $60b – announced origin, a git platform built for the age of ai agents the problem: writing code used to be the hard part. agents solved that. now the bottleneck is everything after – storing, reviewing, and merging a flood of code when dozens of agents edit the same project at once. today's tools were built for humans committing one change at a time what origin does: it's built to handle the huge wave of activity that ai agents create. here's what the demo showed: • 296,064 clones/hr – thousands of agents can each grab their own copy of a project at the same time without ever waiting in line. • 81,360 pushes/hr – all those agents can fire their changes back at once and nothing jams up. • 22.6 commits/sec in a single repo – even when a swarm of agents hammers the same project, it keeps up with the pace. • <400ms worldwide sync – a change you make shows up for everyone on earth in under half a second. • <10ms automatic failover – if a server dies, it switches to a backup in under 10 milliseconds, so nobody notices an outage. on top of the speed, its standout feature is automatically untangling the conflicts that happen when many agents edit the same code at the same time – the thing that usually breaks workflows. why now: signing with elon musk's spacex puts serious firepower behind cursor – capital and compute on a scale standalone startups don't get. enough to take a real shot at the layer github's owned for 18 years the numbers below tell the rest. github makes about $528k per employee. cursor makes around $11.4m – more than 20x per person. github needs a small army to keep running; cursor was built ai-native to do more with way fewer people. and it's now pointing that at github's 180m-user market follow @thehypedotnews for 24/7 ai news, analysis and breakdowns
































