Hi all! Graphite cofounder Greg here - happy to help answer questions. To preempt one: I’ve been asked a few times so far why we decided to join.
Personally, I work on Graphite for two reasons. 1) I love working with kind, smart, intense teammates. I want to be surrounded by folks who I look up to and who energize me. 2) I want to build bleeding-edge dev tools that move the whole industry forward. I have so much respect for all y’all across the world, and nothing makes me happier than getting to create better tooling for y’all to engineer with. Graphite is very much the combination of these two passions: human collaboration and dev tools.
Joining Cursor accelerates both these goals. I get to work with the same team I love, a new bunch of wonderful people, and get to keep recruiting as fast as possible. I also get to keep shipping amazing code collaboration tooling to the industry - but now with more resourcing and expertise. We get to be more ambitious with our visions and timelines, and pull the future forward.
I wouldn’t do this if I didn’t think the Cursor team weren’t standup people with high character and kindness. I wouldn’t do this if I thought it meant compromising our vision of building a better generation of code collaboration tooling. I wouldn’t do it if I thought it wouldn’t be insanely fun and exciting. But it seems to be all those things, so we’re plunging forward with excitement and open hearts!
Love this announcement style. Direct, confident, and not a word longer than it needs to be. Gives major "the work speaks for itself" vibes. OpenAI's comms used to be like this, until it morphed into Apple-like grandiosity that instead comes off as try-hard.
I wonder about this. Graphite is a fantastic tool that I use every day. Cursor was an interesting IDE a year ago that I don't really see much of a use case for anymore. I know they've tried to add other features to diversify their business, and that's where Graphite fits in for them, but is this the best exit for Graphite? It seems like they could have gotten further on their own, instead of becoming a feature that Cursor bought to try to stay in the game.
This is annoying, Graphite's core feature of stacked PRs is really good despite all the AI things they've added around their review UI. I doubt we'll want to keep relying on that for very long now.
You can still think of AI as one facet of Graphite's product that you can use or not depending on your work style. Stacked PRs are still a core piece and not going anywhere :)
Never heard of graphite before today. Were they built specifically for AI code reviews or it's a pivot / new feature from a company that started with something else?
No, they've been doing "managing stacks of dependent pull requests" for a lot longer than AI code review. I've mostly been a happy user, they simplify a lot of the git pain of continually rebasing and the UI makes stacks much easier to work with than Github's own interface.
They started as a better PR review tool, with the main feature that you can stack PRs that have dependencies on each other. It solves the problem of having PRs merging into other PR branches, or having notes not to merge something until another PR merges. Recently they became an AI code review tool, and just added a bunch of AI tools to the review UI, but you could just ignore it and the core functionality was still great.
congrats! as code is written faster, the outer loop—review, testing, deployment—becomes both the bottleneck and the true source of leverage. That’s where the real work now happens.
I’ve long believed pull requests should be where you build, not where you wait. This acquisition makes that tangible at scale. Bringing Cursor and Graphite together turns software development into an AI-powered, collaborative, multiplayer experience—one that matches the speed and ambition of how code is being written today.
Excited to see what the two teams unlock together, and what this moment signals for the future of building software.
Hi all! Graphite cofounder Greg here - happy to help answer questions. To preempt one: I’ve been asked a few times so far why we decided to join.
Personally, I work on Graphite for two reasons. 1) I love working with kind, smart, intense teammates. I want to be surrounded by folks who I look up to and who energize me. 2) I want to build bleeding-edge dev tools that move the whole industry forward. I have so much respect for all y’all across the world, and nothing makes me happier than getting to create better tooling for y’all to engineer with. Graphite is very much the combination of these two passions: human collaboration and dev tools.
Joining Cursor accelerates both these goals. I get to work with the same team I love, a new bunch of wonderful people, and get to keep recruiting as fast as possible. I also get to keep shipping amazing code collaboration tooling to the industry - but now with more resourcing and expertise. We get to be more ambitious with our visions and timelines, and pull the future forward.
I wouldn’t do this if I didn’t think the Cursor team weren’t standup people with high character and kindness. I wouldn’t do this if I thought it meant compromising our vision of building a better generation of code collaboration tooling. I wouldn’t do it if I thought it wouldn’t be insanely fun and exciting. But it seems to be all those things, so we’re plunging forward with excitement and open hearts!
If my company has an existing Cursor subscription, can we get Graphite for free?
congrats.
Love this announcement style. Direct, confident, and not a word longer than it needs to be. Gives major "the work speaks for itself" vibes. OpenAI's comms used to be like this, until it morphed into Apple-like grandiosity that instead comes off as try-hard.
if my employer has a cursor sub, but not a graphite sub, will this news free me from the demon's shackles from hell of github PRs?
This is my favorite question yet
I wonder about this. Graphite is a fantastic tool that I use every day. Cursor was an interesting IDE a year ago that I don't really see much of a use case for anymore. I know they've tried to add other features to diversify their business, and that's where Graphite fits in for them, but is this the best exit for Graphite? It seems like they could have gotten further on their own, instead of becoming a feature that Cursor bought to try to stay in the game.
Congrats team! Graphite was basically what GitHub should have been but never was
Huge fans of their work @ GitStart!
congrats Greg, Merrill, and the rest of the folks at Graphite!
- Hunter @ Ellipsis
two of my fave products under one roof? ok hell yeah
I thought it were graphite.art and had a figurative heart attack.
Never used the tool being acquired, but just discovered the 2D design tool from your comment, looks super cool!
Hi! Another one of the Graphite co-founders here. Alongside Greg, happy to answer any questions :)
This is annoying, Graphite's core feature of stacked PRs is really good despite all the AI things they've added around their review UI. I doubt we'll want to keep relying on that for very long now.
You can still think of AI as one facet of Graphite's product that you can use or not depending on your work style. Stacked PRs are still a core piece and not going anywhere :)
Never heard of graphite before today. Were they built specifically for AI code reviews or it's a pivot / new feature from a company that started with something else?
No, they've been doing "managing stacks of dependent pull requests" for a lot longer than AI code review. I've mostly been a happy user, they simplify a lot of the git pain of continually rebasing and the UI makes stacks much easier to work with than Github's own interface.
They started as a better PR review tool, with the main feature that you can stack PRs that have dependencies on each other. It solves the problem of having PRs merging into other PR branches, or having notes not to merge something until another PR merges. Recently they became an AI code review tool, and just added a bunch of AI tools to the review UI, but you could just ignore it and the core functionality was still great.
stacked prs will only get better from here :) we have an incredible amount of resources to keep improving that part of our product.
congrats! as code is written faster, the outer loop—review, testing, deployment—becomes both the bottleneck and the true source of leverage. That’s where the real work now happens.
I’ve long believed pull requests should be where you build, not where you wait. This acquisition makes that tangible at scale. Bringing Cursor and Graphite together turns software development into an AI-powered, collaborative, multiplayer experience—one that matches the speed and ambition of how code is being written today.
Excited to see what the two teams unlock together, and what this moment signals for the future of building software.
@dang Any guidelines on obvious AI slop like this?
Prompt injection?