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Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by KingMob » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 4:06 AM UTC

egorfine wrote: post #110

KingMob wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is just incorrect. Warp predates the AI craze, and one of its original selling points was reimagining how the terminal could work: it could be more native, and act like a REPL/chat, instead of a grid of characters.

They have also innovated by requiring login (into a console!!) which is a very bold move. Today they have heaps of telemetry, so a privacy nightmare. This is a terminal that is not designed for users.

You've just described 99% of modern non-FOSS software. The only thing actually novel is that it's a terminal in this case.

> not designed for users

It's not designed for you.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by arjunthazhath » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 6:29 AM UTC

Recently cal.com became closed source fearing AI slop PRs! Isnt wasp scared of such a thing?

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by LucasOe » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 2:40 PM UTC

I'm trying to understand what Warp is. I watched the 2.0 announcement, and it looks like it's an agentic editor that calls itself a "terminal" for some reason. I don't think the video shows a single terminal command being executed in a product called "Warp Terminal."

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by em-bee » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 10:46 PM UTC

zachlloyd wrote: post #23

Squarex wrote: post #16

I hope someone will create a lightweight version without AI and code editing stuff. The terminal experience is the best, but I don't have any use for the agentic stuff while having claude code, opencode, codex and plenty other options.

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, etc). Curious if this does the trick?

the rpm available for download (warp-terminal-0:v0.2026.04.27.15.32.stable_03-1) doesn't seem to work without login. after going through all the setup i got stuck at a prompt asking me to log in with no option to skip it.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by brookst » Sat, May 02, 2026, 12:35 PM UTC

godelski wrote: post #119

brookst wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 fa…

It’s fair to be skeptical. Though I’d question whether the quality declines you observe (presumably with hard evidence) really just started in the past 18 months or so, such that strong correlation to AI coding tools suggests causality.

For my part, I’m too busy building to spend time quantifying quality issues in my past decade of hobby projects so I can compare to my new work, which subjectively is far more capable and higher quality.