Cursor: Origin Code Hosting
What changed:
- Origin is Cursor's new code hosting platform, rolling out in early beta on all paid plans: repos, pull requests, and code browsing
- GitHub repos sync to Origin in real time; PR comments and reactions sync both ways between Cursor and GitHub within seconds
- Agents can answer questions, make changes, update PRs, or push a branch from any Origin repo
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Elon is after Microsoft now!!
Cursor is planning to kill Github
Yesterday GitHub went down for 7 and a half hours. Website, Actions, Copilot, code merging, all of it. 15,000 developers reported outage.
GitHub's own CTO admitted they planned for 10x capacity and realized they needed 30x. They're now renting servers from AWS, Microsoft's biggest cloud rival.
Cursor launched Origin the same day.
"Memory prices up 500% in 12 months and 10x the lowest level"
Memory prices, along with AI token prices have made business very difficult. We have held back from raising prices but it is becoming hard.
A techncial note: for a long time, programming languages were designed with the assumption that memory is "free". That era has now ended. We need highly memory efficient languages and smarter compilers, even for AI to use.
Safety of code snd productivity in writing code cannot come at the expense of memory bloat. That is my area of research.
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जिले में अत्यधिक वर्षा को दृष्टिगत रखते हुए भोपाल जिलान्तर्गत संचालित समस्त शासकीय/अशासकीय/अनुदान प्राप्त (MPBSE/CBSE/ICSE/अन्य) विद्यालयों में आज दिनांक 12.08.2026 को कक्षा नर्सरी से 12वी के विद्यार्थियों हेतु अवकाश घोषित किया जाता है।
@schooledump@JansamparkMP#Bhopal
Har Ghar Tiranga is back!!
Get ready to participate in the world’s biggest Jan Bhagidari movement. Dedicated to the spirit of the National Song, Vande Mataram.
Hoist the Tiranga🇮🇳 at home & share your Tiranga selfies on https://t.co/c5g8kQJwh3
🗓️Date: 9th-17th August, 2026
#HarGharTiranga #HGT2026 #VandeMataram150 #CultureUnitesAll
@GoI_MeitY@AshwiniVaishnaw@JitinPrasada@SecretaryMEITY@arvindtw@_DigitalIndia@NeGD_GoI
The myth of the lone genius is everywhere.
But Steve Jobs, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk all agree on one thing: great companies are built by teams, not by one person.
Business loves the idea of a single visionary changing the world. The reality is different.
Steve Jobs put it best using The Beatles. Four talented people who balanced each other’s weaknesses and pushed each other to be better. The sum was greater than the parts. When they were together, they created brilliant, innovative work. When they split up, the magic wasn’t the same.
Sam Altman says building the team is the most important thing a founder does. After the product, the company becomes a reflection of the people in it. The shift isn’t from idea to product, it’s from product to people.
Elon Musk puts it simply. A company is just a group of people working together to create something. The talent, focus, and cohesion of that group decide if you succeed or fail.
So the best founders stop asking, “How do I build this?”
And start asking, “Who should I build it with?”
The real issue facing our nation is how to create jobs for our massive cohort of youth in this very uncertain global landscape.
Sadly, the IT industry, including Zoho, have not created many jobs in recent years. We have not laid off people but we are not creating new jobs either.
The money that would have gone to new employees is now going to AI and data center costs, the latter due to the steep rise in server and memory prices. We are trying to control those costs but a lot of that is out of our control.
While AI allows us to produce more software quicker, does the over-saturated global software market need a lot more software? Like any commodity industry, the focus shifts to quality, reliability, brand and so on and growth will be much slower.
Software customers (large and mid-sized enterprises) also have redireced their own IT spending towards AI. Even the AI companies which are growing very rapidly are borrowing and spending huge amounts of money in capex, and it is not clear they will achieve the massive profits they need to justify all the capex.
What other industry can pick up the slack? Extensive automation means that large scale manufacturing produces few jobs.
As an economic thinker, this is a good thing: ultimately all kinds of goods, including advanced tech products become very affordable because production becomes so cheap. The "only" question is how the economy is structured so people have the income to afford those affordable goods.
That "only" question, simple in theory, is not easy in practice. Some people think the answer is Universal Basic Income (UBI) and some of that is already happening in India (we call them freebies). We can expect the political pressure to do a lot more.
Is there a better answer? Continued ...