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Re: The Warp Agent CLI

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Post by sejje »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #23
agluszak wrote: post #9

> a CLI coding agent that does what others can't I've read the product description and I don't see anything that's truly unique

> think of our CLI agent as a built-in mux’er across agent sessions. This allows more natural interactions, like being able to switch directories in agent sessions, have the agent drive full-screen terminal commands (e.g. sqlite and mysql), and even run across ssh sessions with no remote binary install. Looks like they let you use your LLM of choice on anything your terminal can SSH into using their TUI without havin…

I just use tmux (not warp), and the agent interacts with that pretty often. I'm not sure it's at the same level, but it's doing `tmux send-keys`

Re: The Warp Agent CLI

#52

Post by cute_boi »

wuhhh wrote: post #50
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.

I clicked on no ai during onboarding after installation, and I have never seen AI anywhere. I don't think pressing 1 button is really that hard?

Re: The Warp Agent CLI

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Post by brandall10 »

ac29 wrote: post #20
Instantnoodl wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The codex and many other subscriptions can be used with other harnesses like OpenCode and pi. It's officially supported most of the time. Using my Codex and MiniMax sub just fine in pi.

Yeah Anthropic is the only company I am aware of that only allows subscription usage in first party products

Google as well.

Re: The Warp Agent CLI

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Post by wuhhh »

cute_boi wrote: post #52
wuhhh wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I clicked on no ai during onboarding after installation, and I have never seen AI anywhere. I don't think pressing 1 button is really that hard?

The point being I liked the general offering including the AI _to begin with_. Once they went OTT with it it killed the product for me to the point of not wanting it with or without

Re: The Warp Agent CLI

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Post by tomjakubowski »

theappsecguy wrote: post #30
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…

does anyone know if the above experience and fluid vim-style behaviour can be replicated on something like ghostty? this was the killer feature of Warp imo and I saw no other benefits, but somehow not other terminal has been able to (or tried to) catch up

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but it's not necessarily a terminal feature per se. Have you tried setting `vi` mode in your shell? There is a bit of lag going into normal mode in ghostty; maybe ghostty is configured by default to wait for a second keypress when you hit Esc and you can disable that.

Bash (also works in zsh): https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Readline-...

Re: The Warp Agent CLI

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Post by HDBaseT »

qudat wrote: post #43

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

I find it a bit strange that none of the mainstream harnesses have dedicated support for using an agent on another machine/VM on. I understand there is security and permissions limitations, but if I have 30 different VMs, it becomes unmanagable pretty quickly.

Re: The Warp Agent CLI

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Post by ahmadyan »

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?

> Why is every company seemingly trying to re-implement agents themselves rather than making their product work with the existing ones?

Well, i'm trying to do the later, and it is very hard to position the product and differentiate without vertical integration. When Warp owns both agent and the terminal, they can a) give terminal for free and charge on the agent, and b) lock the user in, so it is a good business but poor user experience.

on the other hand, i have to make sure every agent is working which more surface area to maintain, and i'm also limited to the common subset of features. Also it is much harder to convince folks to switch.

Lets try: I support Wezterm (and ghostty, and others) with 40+ different agents (Claude, Codex, etc) in agentastic.dev, would you give it a try?

Re: The Warp Agent CLI

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Post by theappsecguy »

tomjakubowski wrote: post #55
theappsecguy wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

does anyone know if the above experience and fluid vim-style behaviour can be replicated on something like ghostty? this was the killer feature of Warp imo and I saw no other benefits, but somehow not other terminal has been able to (or tried to) catch up

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but it's not necessarily a terminal feature per se. Have you tried setting `vi` mode in your shell? There is a bit of lag going into normal mode in ghostty; maybe ghostty is configured by default to wait for a second keypress when you hit Esc and you can disable that. Bash (also works in zsh): https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Readline-...

I do use vi mode in the shell, but unfortunately it's not quite the Warp experience, which has full vim functionality with visual mode, multi-cursor, mouse selection, syntax highlighting, etc :)

Re: The Warp Agent CLI

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Post by srijan4 »

theappsecguy wrote: post #59
tomjakubowski wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but it's not necessarily a terminal feature per se. Have you tried setting `vi` mode in your shell? There is a bit of lag going into normal mode in ghostty; maybe ghostty is configured by default to wait for a second keypress when you hit Esc and you can disable that. Bash (also works in zsh): https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Readline-...

I do use vi mode in the shell, but unfortunately it's not quite the Warp experience, which has full vim functionality with visual mode, multi-cursor, mouse selection, syntax highlighting, etc :)

Maybe try ghostel with evil-mode, if you're okay with Emacs? https://github.com/dakra/ghostel
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