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Warp sends a terminal session to LLM without user consent

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Re: Warp sends a terminal session to LLM without user consent

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Anyone got a recommendation for a replacement? I'm currently using Warp and the history/context-aware autocomplete-on-meth is nice, but I don't use any of the new agentic features.

Fish shell has this capability and you don't need any special terminal.

I imagine there are zsh scripts and/or omz plugins for it too.

iTerm2 on Mac has extra integrations also.

Re: Warp sends a terminal session to LLM without user consent

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post #10

Anyone got a recommendation for a replacement? I'm currently using Warp and the history/context-aware autocomplete-on-meth is nice, but I don't use any of the new agentic features.

Self-plug: Still in early days, but I've positioned myself as the indie alternative. Terminal Click [0] is a 100% offline binary for Windows, Mac and Linux. I'm also blurring the lines between plain text and rich graphics. Zero AI is involved.

Consider subscribing to the RSS feed [1] at the very least :)

[0] https://terminal.click

[1] https://terminal.click/index.xml

Re: Warp sends a terminal session to LLM without user consent

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It’s absolutely insane they managed to raise 50M dollars. Now they’re shooting for a desperate AI pivot that no one wants.

One of the really nice things about Cloud Code is that it can interact with your file system, github api, local utilities, etc.

Warp feels like it's at a similar spot with their agent albeit with less Anthropic secret sauce.

Re: Warp sends a terminal session to LLM without user consent

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Warp has been a disaster product for years. Click into almost any of their HN threads and you'll find damning condemnations of their sneaky behavior: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Yes, and also condemnations about their project in general. I have noticed they have stopped commenting as much on posts that mentioned them.

Something makes me think HN might not be the target demographic for a bloaty proprietary terminal with a login prompt & LLMs stuffed into it.

Re: Warp sends a terminal session to LLM without user consent

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post #10

Anyone got a recommendation for a replacement? I'm currently using Warp and the history/context-aware autocomplete-on-meth is nice, but I don't use any of the new agentic features.

Fish shell has this capability and you don't need any special terminal. I imagine there are zsh scripts and/or omz plugins for it too. iTerm2 on Mac has extra integrations also.

Do you mean iTerm2 extra integrations with fish shell or that it has a setting somewhere that integrates Warp’s fancy GUI autocomplete stuff?

Re: Warp sends a terminal session to LLM without user consent

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I tried Warp once. Well, tried to install it. But when I ran it, instead of giving me a terminal, it showed me a login prompt. Perhaps I mistakenly downloaded a login prompt app instead of a terminal app? ;) Either way, I promptly uninstalled it as I needed a terminal app and not whatever that was.

They removed the login requirement. You can now use it without logging in. It was stupid.

Re: Warp sends a terminal session to LLM without user consent

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Isn't the express purpose of Warp to be an AI-centric terminal? What's the use case for doing stuff in Warp that you don't want sent to an LLM vs. using a regular terminal?

I am normally pretty quick to jump on how bad for privacy shoving some random LLM tool into a product is and the serious security risks especially in the terminal...

But looking at the marketing for Warp, this thing screams LLM everything. Nothing about this hints that things are processed locally. I can't imagine using a tool like this and not thinking that everything I type into it (and give it access too) is getting routed to a server somewhere.

What am I missing here about being upset that... it seems to be doing its job?

Unless I am missing that it is installing something so this happens in your normal terminal or something like that... to be blunt if you used this tool and this is what breaks your trust... how did you think it worked in the first place?

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