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Warp is now open-source

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Re: Warp is now open-source

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Interestingly i had been building a terminal in rust and libghostty(with Linux and windows supported too) with built-in agent that understands terminal, too. And the motivation was warp is doing a little bit more than a terminal. https://con.nowledge.co Glad to see now warp is open-sourced

Keep working on it. Warp has to overcome much of it's historical bad decisions. They announce becoming open-source, but they don't have trust yet.

You may want to read this about trust: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945823

Re: Warp is now open-source

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> Why now

I am skeptical that they decided human input is their bottleneck just as the cost per token spiked from some AI providers. I see this as a way to reduce their compute spend (offloaded to the community), but I doubt they are going to give up any creative control, so their employee review bottleneck probably won’t change.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Literally installed and used Warp for the first time ever, asked the agent "/agent can you open a tab in the terminal for each build folder" and my account got disabled for AI immediately due to a "Terms of Service violation". Very poor first time user experience.

Hey, it's Sathvik from the Warp team. So sorry to hear this! Do you mind reaching out to appeals@warp.dev? We'll help you get this sorted out.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Literally installed and used Warp for the first time ever, asked the agent "/agent can you open a tab in the terminal for each build folder" and my account got disabled for AI immediately due to a "Terms of Service violation". Very poor first time user experience.

I was confused by the name. For a second I got excited that OS/2 Warp was being open sourced. That os was ahead of its time. And I don't just say that because my dad was called "Mr. OS/2" because he was very good at selling it to clients of IBM

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their terminal is just Alacritty, why would you do all these extra steps instead of just using Alacritty, or Ghostty? The terminal emulator was never their selling point, the AI wrapper was. https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2049159764261925005

> The terminal emulator was never their selling point, the AI wrapper was. Considering it came out in 2020 - a few years before the LLM hype train left the station, and when I started using it there was no AI integration, this doesn't seem accurate. I liked using it because of the text input.

Thanks for the correction, I’ve only had it on my radar since they became the AI Terminal.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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I swear I've heard that exact phrase repeated over and over by many people

Many people believe it’s true. My hobby projects have 100x more tests than they used to, because LLMs are great at writing tests. And my subjective experience is that the net quality has increased as a result. YMMV, but it’s certainly a common belief, and for me at least a lived experience.

A lot of people believe a lot of things are true. Plenty of things that are provably false too. People will have strong convictions. People will drink deadly Koolaid because they believe in things so much.

I don't care what people believe, I care about what is. What is measurable. What is factual. I need evidence for a belief to be meaningful. I need strong evidence for a belief to be strong. Not just evidence in favor, but evidence that alternative explanations are unlikely.

Currently I see evidence that things are moving fast. But I am unable to distinguish if this is actually because of AI or because increased efforts and motivation. Most importantly, speed isn't the same thing as velocity.

What I do not see evidence for is increasing quality. In fact, I see strong evidence to the contrary. I see strong evidence that quality is declining even quicker than it was before. I'm not convinced AI is that cause of this, but there's more than adequate evidence for me to believe it is a (significant) catalyst.

Right now you could throw a stone in a random direction and there's a good chance that whatever it lands on will be decreasing in quality. It is even easy to gesture broadly at Microsoft, but they aren't the only big tech disappointing their users.

I hear a lot of claims. I don't see a lot of evidence.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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I predicted with 100% certainty that this company would fail at launch. What I failed to predict was how long it would take. I’m not bragging, everyone should see it coming.
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