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Re: The Warp Agent CLI

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Post by 9dev »

madeofpalk wrote: post #7
daveidol wrote: post #3

So this is a competitor to something like OpenCode or Pi? I suspect for most developers, they are using Claude Code or Codex CLI mainly just so they don't have to pay-per-token and can use the subscription products - which I assume can't be done with Warp Agent?

I suspect most developers don’t care too much about cost because they’re just using what their company is just paying for whatever enterprise subscription/billing.

Well someone (like me) has to make the decision what their developers get to use, and that was in fact informed by subscription pricing vs. API cost.

Re: The Warp Agent CLI

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Post by FridgeSeal »

yoyohello13 wrote: post #39
lexicality wrote: post #5

I used to really like Warp, back when it was just a terminal. Then as they went more and more in on AI the actual terminal features became more and more buggy and I ended up having to go back to WezTerm. Why is every company seemingly trying to re-implement agents themselves rather than making their product work with the existing ones?

The writing was on the wall from the very start of Warp. I can't remember precisely what happened, but years ago when it was first announced there was something that required internet, or telemetry, or an account to use Warp. I noped out right there before I even tried further. It was always going to be bloatware.

They were VC-backed, and had some kind of sign-up/account system for the early invites.

Re: The Warp Agent CLI

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Post by qudat »

Interesting idea! I like the idea of more deeply integrating code agent with the terminal (e.g. shell, ptys, etc).

It's spawning PTYs but does it support SSH'ing into a remote session and running commands from a remote shell? That's something I built into zmx in order to scratch that "debugging in a remote VM" itch.

https://zmx.sh

Re: The Warp Agent CLI

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Post by dghlsakjg »

jrm4 wrote: post #25

The irrational exuberance of these guys. It's interesting to see what happened, somebody somewhere got the very very bad idea (if the goal is to make money) of "we will build, like the BEST terminal." Which, given open-source, is just going to be a dead-end, even before AI. Because software likes to be modifiable, and this sort of thing is literally at the center of people who like to modify software. But, hey, if so…

Docker has an ARR of ~$200mm. They did that by pivoting to a strong focus on developer tooling in 2019 after they nearly went under due to focusing too much on their enterprise infrastructure product.

I would be fine being a business “failure” by that definition.

Re: The Warp Agent CLI

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Post by hbn »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #18
hbn wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I became a fan of Warp when they offered a terminal that treated the input as a normal text input field so I could use my normal keyboard text editing shortcuts. But I understand that's not a viable business model. I'm back on iTerm2 now cause Warp isn't approved for use at my job (and never would be with all their AI pushing), and I've managed to pound iTerm 2 into something usable enough but I wish every termi…

I never used Warp, is the editing similar to PowerShell ISE's editing by chance? Powershell ISE is like a mix of a script editor and a PowerShell UI so you can script out some things or use the terminal directly.

I can't compare to PowerShell, I've only ever used the Mac version of Warp (the Windows version is relatively new, I can't attest to the quality)

To be more specific about what I was saying, on Mac, in any standard text field I can hold Cmd and hit left or right to jump to the start or end of a line, or hold Option to jump a word at a time, and if I hold shift it'll select text. Option-delete deletes the last word, etc.

I've managed to get iTerm2 to do a lot of this stuff but, for example, Option-shift-left, instead of highlighting the last word, spits out the text ";4D"

Re: The Warp Agent CLI

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Post by esafak »

jareklupinski wrote: post #37
Jonovono wrote: post #19

The other day in warp I literally couldn't run `ls` because it kept interpreting it as a AI command. I still love warp, but some of the stuff is crazy.

i keep getting the opposite problem: > please implement the fix $ please: command not found

Same problem: the classifier.

Re: The Warp Agent CLI

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Post by dmix »

I don't currently plan to use this stuff (mostly because I generally use Claude via IDE sidebars) but I still love Warp and their TOML/YAML based config which preloads my 10 tabs + tab groups on init, covering the 3 projects I work on. So I don't have to go into each dir and remember start commands every time I reboot.

Re: The Warp Agent CLI

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Post by dmix »

Jonovono wrote: post #19

The other day in warp I literally couldn't run `ls` because it kept interpreting it as a AI command. I still love warp, but some of the stuff is crazy.

FWIW I use ZSH in Warp daily and never had this problem with ls. Although I have experienced the the agent prediction doing a false positive auto-switch thing a few times.

Re: The Warp Agent CLI

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Post by wuhhh »

lexicality wrote: post #5

I used to really like Warp, back when it was just a terminal. Then as they went more and more in on AI the actual terminal features became more and more buggy and I ended up having to go back to WezTerm. Why is every company seemingly trying to re-implement agents themselves rather than making their product work with the existing ones?

Warp was so promising to begin with - super clean and polished UI, AI features that actually made sense, really good dev outreach & PR. Over time, they started cramming more and more AI in everywhere, took over half the input area and you could just see there was no coming back. This is why VC backed software will always stink in the end. I use ghostty now.
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