Im guessing the lock-in is strong enough that they can eat the reputational hit while getting meaningful training data by subsidizing the free users.
Github has a decade of positive reputation to deal out, I don't see Grok or OpenAI jumping in and competing with that.
I wanted to set up a Cloudflare static page and all the tooling is completely designed around Github. If you want any other service, you have to roll it yourself.
Cloudflare has official support for Cursor Origin. I migrated all of my repos from GitHub to Cursor Origin and am still able to easily use Cloudflare Workers and Pages with all of its features, including preview builds from PRs in Origin.
The official Cloudflare CLI can ship static site content with one command: "wrangler pages deploy"
Easy enough to run from another CI or automated system.
Interesting! I should investigate that. I was following their docs and GitHub was 100% the happy path, and I was actually hoping to avoid it (downtime woes).
Yeah, the GitHub integration is definitely "click button, sign in to GitHub, automation sets everything up" which is simple and hands-off.
But, the wrangler CLI isn't that much of a step up. Biggest items are installing the CLI and having the CloudFlare API token available in a secure manner.
I suspect the 1/4 (?) ownership by Microsoft plays a factor into OpenAI.
Otherwise I reckon they’d have cloned GitHub already; possibly with a “Mirror to CodexHub? Free usage reset”.