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zachlloyd
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About zachlloyd
Founder @warp.dev (https://www.warp.dev), rebuilding the Terminal for the modern age. Prev: Principal Eng at Google Docs, Co-founder at SelfMade, Interim CTO at TIME.
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Comment #47971160
We have a way of turning off all the AI if you don't like it (Settings > AI > turn it off). I get the desire here.
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Comment #47971157
Warp founder here. It's cool to see the community excitement here. Note that we are going to add bring-your-own-model directly into Warp. Would love interested folks to weigh in on…
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Comment #47942144
we have a lot of users who like warp as a place to run other coding agents (e.g. claude code, codex) and have tried to improve the experience for those beyond what a typical termin…
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Comment #47942135
argh, sorry that we made it worse for you, that definitely was not the intention. we were trying to make the modes clearer. You can still basically get back to the same way of work…
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Comment #47941622
that's fair. we try to be opinionated on the default experience but allow a lot of customizability.
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Comment #47941612
thanks for the support here. we are very grateful for the help you all provided initially, and if you are interested in sponsorship for the repo, we are also happy to provide some.…
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Comment #47941591
that's the correct read - we shared what we were building and they helped us integrate alacritty. it's similar to how mitchell h reached out and asked today if we wanted to integra…
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Comment #47940372
We hear this feedback a bunch and are trying to make Warp more customizable so you can pick and choose which of the extra, non-terminal features you find most useful . You can turn…
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Comment #47940353
Glad the workflow is working for you! In terms of monetization, we actually don't monetize the terminal at all, we monetize our agent and our orchestration platform (www.oz.dev). T…
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Comment #47939721
It's still a terminal at its core, and you can use it to run any CLI coding agent or use our built in agent. We've added features to make using CLI coding agents easier (e.g. a fil…
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Comment #47939680
Warp founder here. Great question. I outline the thought process in detail in our blog ( https://www.warp.dev/blog/warp-is-now-open-source ) But the tl;dr is that I actually think …
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Comment #47939601
Warp founder here. Totally understood on the feedback - one thing I would call out is that we actually worked with Alacritty on the initial implementation and they were super helpf…
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Comment #47939521
This is on our public roadmap actually. Would love to work with the community on this.
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Comment #47939514
Correct, we got rid of this requirement a couple of years ago. No login required at all, except for using AI and team features.
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Comment #47939506
Warp founder here. We actually are chatting with Mitchell about integrating Ghostty so it's the terminal grid renderer within Warp.
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Comment #47939454
correct - our business is our agent and orchestrator, not our terminal.
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Comment #47939339
It's good feedback. We've tried to make it so there is a single "turn off all the AI stuff" button (and you can opt into plain old terminal during onboarding as well, with no login…
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Comment #42251378
fair. there is a large segment of developers who find the command line hard to use or who just want a better, more productive experience using it. to be clear, you may not fall int…
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Comment #42251352
fair criticism, and this is the reason we removed the login requirement. just to clarify though, the point of the login is that we have features that cost money to provide like AI …
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Comment #35916860
Hi HN - I'm the author of this post. It's about how productivity interfaces (e.g. Figma, GDocs, VSCode) are going to evolve in the world of generative AI. The basic thesis is prett…
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Comment #35727541
Hi, author of the blog post here. Happy to address any questions or comments! tl;dr I believe we are moving to an AI-first world in productivity, but, importantly, not an AI-only w…