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Cursor launched a GitHub competitor the day after GitHub fell over for eight hours — here's whether Origin is worth your repos
On 18 August 2026 Cursor shipped Origin, a Git forge built for agent-generated code, in early beta on all paid plans. The timing was brutal: GitHub had just spent 7h47m degraded, with ~20% error rates. But the story isn't the outage — it's that Origin is built on Continuity, a from-scratch Git storage layer by the engineer who ran GitHub's, and that Cursor is now owned by SpaceX. Here's what Origin actually does, what it doesn't do yet, and who should care.
Read story →GitHub Copilot moves to token-based billing — flat-rate is dead, power users seeing 10-50× bill spikes
GitHub Copilot transitioned all plans to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026. Base subscription prices unchanged (Pro $10, Pro+ $39, Business $19/user, Enterprise $39/user), but the monthly fee now buys an equivalent dollar amount of AI Credits ($10 plan = $10 in credits). Tokens consumed by every input, output, and cached request count against the allotment. Code completions and Next Edit stay free. Power users running agentic Copilot workflows report 10-50× bill increases vs the old flat-rate model.
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