Cursor Origin is on by default for paid users, and its data terms are unpublished

Cursor started rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, on Monday morning. About three and a half hours later GitHub fell over.

The order matters, because most of the internet reversed it.

Matt Palmer works at Cursor. He quote-tweeted his own company’s launch with a line that then travelled further than the product. Cursor meant to ship earlier, he wrote, but GitHub was down.

It is a joke, and a good one. Origin had already shipped. Michael Nuñez laid out the sequence for VentureBeat. He called it the day’s best line. He also noted that companies lock launches weeks ahead.

No evidence suggests Cursor timed this. The coincidence simply did the company an enormous favour.

What actually broke

GitHub’s degradation ran six hours and forty-two minutes, resolving at 20:22 UTC.

Error rates hit roughly 20% on pull requests, issues and the API. Archive and raw file downloads hit about...

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