--- title: Cursor, GitLab and Zed agree GitHub is breaking. They... description: GitHub is struggling under the load of AI-generated code, processing 1.4 billion commits per month and logging hundreds of incidents over the past year. Three... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/cursor-gitlab-and-zed-agree-github-is-breaking-they-disagree-on-how-to-rebuild-it--kieydoqvg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Cursor, GitLab and Zed agree GitHub is breaking. They disagree on how to rebuild it. | daily.dev og:description: GitHub is struggling under the load of AI-generated code, processing 1.4 billion commits per month and logging hundreds of incidents over the past year. Three... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/cursor-gitlab-and-zed-agree-github-is-breaking-they-disagree-on-how-to-rebuild-it--kieydoqvg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/kieYdoQVG.png og:image:alt: Cursor, GitLab and Zed agree GitHub is breaking. They disagree on how to rebuild it. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Cursor, GitLab and Zed agree GitHub is breaking. They disagree on how to rebuild it. **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 10 min read · 76 upvotes · 10 comments ## Summary GitHub is struggling under the load of AI-generated code, processing 1.4 billion commits per month and logging hundreds of incidents over the past year. Three companies are racing to rebuild code hosting for the agentic era with fundamentally different approaches: Cursor unveiled Origin, a Git-compatible platform designed for agent workloads with MCP support and built-in CI failure resolution; GitLab announced Project Switch (Next Generation SCM), which keeps Git protocol but redesigns the backend to allow server-side repository queries — delivering up to 50x faster agent task execution with 3x fewer tokens; and Zed introduced DeltaDB, the most radical departure, replacing Git's commit model entirely with a continuous stream of fine-grained deltas tied to agent conversations. Former GitHub director Brian Douglas argues that tokens — not commits or lines of code — are the right metric for the agentic era, and that owning the underlying model (as Cursor does with Composer) is what makes owning the broader developer stack viable. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@khauma** · 9 upvotes > The writing was on the wall: Git and its ecosystem were built for humans (and even then, barely). As AI-driven development takes over, the way we build software is about to fundamentally change. **@kibongo** · 8 upvotes > Very soon big organizations will start to switch to internal self-hosted git repo storage. **@kartiknvj** · 7 upvotes > _The missing primitive in all three pitches is attribution granularity: when an agent authors a commit, version control still treats it as one human-shaped unit, so you lose the link between a diff and the prompt plus tool calls that produced_ _it._ _I_ _would_ _rather_ _see_ _a_ _layer_ _that_ _records_ _that provenance_ _than_ _another_ _reinvention_ _of_ _the_ _merge_ _model. Without_ _it,_ _debugging_ _a_ _regression_ _an_ _agent_ _introduced_ _three commits_ _back_ _stays_ _guesswork._ **@petecapecod** · 3 upvotes > we all know it's coming, GitHub can't take the crazy load from all these agents. We'll see if anyone can 👌🏼 **@starfallcodes** · 2 upvotes > rip github --- Tags: [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#version-control](https://daily.dev/tags/version-control), [#gitlab](https://daily.dev/tags/gitlab) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/cursor-gitlab-and-zed-agree-github-is-breaking-they-disagree-on-how-to-rebuild-it--kieydoqvg) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Cursor, GitLab and Zed agree GitHub is breaking. 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