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Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by scratchyone »

zachlloyd wrote: post #33
hmokiguess wrote: post #22

I swear I tried. I installed warp maybe 4 times after long intervals. At each time I always ended up with the same feeling as my initial impression: overwhelming. I think I’m not the target demographic for it, I’m fine with iTerm2 and Ghostty, but I somehow still feel this void where I wish the terminal was a little more abstract and rich, just not to the level Warp takes it. I wish there were an in-between solution…

We hear this feedback a bunch and are trying to make Warp more customizable so you can pick and choose which of the extra, non-terminal features you find most useful . You can turn off all the AI if you want, and also control what editing features are surfaced (e.g. file tree, diff view, etc). Would love feedback on how to improve the experience.

In all honesty, the people who want to turn off AI won't be downloading Warp in the first place. I know Warp has interesting terminal innovations because I've been familiar with it since before the AI boom, but new users can't really tell.

Homepage header is "Warp is the agentic development environment", only screenshot on the homepage shows what appears to be a product similar to cursor/antigravity/etc AI IDE. Fair if that's your product direction but there's nothing there that tells new users about your terminal UX improvements. Honestly even if I was in the market for a new AI tool, there's nothing on your website that really tells me why I should pick Warp over any of the many competitors.

Fwiw I think Warp is quite cool, I just mean this as hopefully useful feedback from a new customer perspective.

Re: Warp is now open-source

#152

Post by satisfice »

scratchyone wrote: post #151
zachlloyd wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We hear this feedback a bunch and are trying to make Warp more customizable so you can pick and choose which of the extra, non-terminal features you find most useful . You can turn off all the AI if you want, and also control what editing features are surfaced (e.g. file tree, diff view, etc). Would love feedback on how to improve the experience.

In all honesty, the people who want to turn off AI won't be downloading Warp in the first place. I know Warp has interesting terminal innovations because I've been familiar with it since before the AI boom, but new users can't really tell. Homepage header is "Warp is the agentic development environment", only screenshot on the homepage shows what appears to be a product similar to cursor/antigravity/etc AI IDE. Fair…

I don’t use Warps AI features. It’s pretty easy to avoid them.

Re: Warp is now open-source

#153

Post by satisfice »

Muhammad523 wrote: post #103
zachlloyd wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We hear this feedback a bunch and are trying to make Warp more customizable so you can pick and choose which of the extra, non-terminal features you find most useful . You can turn off all the AI if you want, and also control what editing features are surfaced (e.g. file tree, diff view, etc). Would love feedback on how to improve the experience.

> You can turn off they AI if you want Since your company is basically based on this agentic coding thing, i really don't see why anybody would run Warp without AI. Why not use a normal terminal then? Oh yeah, to waste space on disk and to use more RAM: we have plenty

Warp is a more powerful shell. It has a better UI. I almost never use its AI features.

Re: Warp is now open-source

#154

Post by saghm »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #96
saghm wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't have particularly strong preference for copyleft (I use the Apache license for my personal projects), but these don't seem like particularly compelling arguments. > So if I use vim or emacs for free, or VS Code for that matter Vim and emacs both use licenses that require you to share any source code modifications if you distribute binaries that you change, so that's kind of a strange comparison. You literally…

> I don't understand why you think it would be hard to "hunt down" someone when an email is literally in every commit in the git history of open source software. I use Arch Linux, tell me which of the thousands of packages am I obligated to donate to? Im not exactly a money fountain to be giving money away to strangers I am grateful for, but it I put something on the internet as open source, for free, I dont cry if n…

> I use Arch Linux, tell me which of the thousands of packages am I obligated to donate to? Im not exactly a money fountain to be giving money away to strangers I am grateful for, but it I put something on the internet as open source, for free, I dont cry if nobody reaches out to give me money.

If you read past that part of the comment to pick out the one thing you had a rebuttal for out of context, you might have noticed the parts about having $50 million dollars of VC money.

> Honestly, I rather just be informed that my project is being used to make someone a profitable business, thats good enough for me personally. If I thought different, I wouldnt open source said projects.

That's a totally valid take. It's also totally valid to think that a company that takes all that money to release a product that doesn't offer that much more than the original is a waste of resources that could be at least somewhat useful by giving 1/500th of it to the person who did almost all of the work they took.

Re: Warp is now open-source

#155

Post by lern_too_spel »

u_fucking_dork wrote: post #58
lern_too_spel wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alacritty is an application. Most of us use GPL applications at work.

Neither I nor the comment I replied to are talking about Alacritty

The comment you replied to is talking about how a company used the Alacritty code exactly how its license allows.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by jeffyaw »

hmokiguess wrote: post #22

I swear I tried. I installed warp maybe 4 times after long intervals. At each time I always ended up with the same feeling as my initial impression: overwhelming. I think I’m not the target demographic for it, I’m fine with iTerm2 and Ghostty, but I somehow still feel this void where I wish the terminal was a little more abstract and rich, just not to the level Warp takes it. I wish there were an in-between solution…

there is, yaw terminal.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by drakenot »

zachlloyd wrote: post #124
drakenot wrote: post #122

I used to like Warp and was a paying customer. It had a simple UI with a clear button / key combo to toggle the “agent mode”. That, plus the fact it could “warpify” my SSH connections made this a useful utility. Then a couple months ago they completely changed the UI. It doesn’t work as it once did. My saved prompt templates didn’t work as they did before, the agent toggle was gone (you can now start some ‘/agent’ co…

argh, sorry that we made it worse for you, that definitely was not the intention. we were trying to make the modes clearer. You can still basically get back to the same way of working if you set new terminal sessions to be "agent sessions" and enable natural language detection. that's how i use it.

Thank you for that tip, I'll try that.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by KingMob »

zachlloyd wrote: post #126
Muhammad523 wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You can turn off they AI if you want Since your company is basically based on this agentic coding thing, i really don't see why anybody would run Warp without AI. Why not use a normal terminal then? Oh yeah, to waste space on disk and to use more RAM: we have plenty

we have a lot of users who like warp as a place to run other coding agents (e.g. claude code, codex) and have tried to improve the experience for those beyond what a typical terminal offers (e.g. code review, file tree)

I personally love the Shift+Cmd+J that jumps to whichever Claude is finished and waiting for my input :P

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by [deleted] »

Muhammad523 wrote: post #82
shimman wrote: post #7

Still feel extremely negative towards this company for tweaking an Alacritty fork then using that to get a $50million venture round then giving zero money towards Alacritty, an open source library that the founder completely owes their career too. Not shocked they partnered with another company that is fine with raping the commons for profit, OpenAI. They definitely did some git cleanup to remove this fact too going…

This is what AI companies do. They steal stuff and then do not give credit to anyone, not even a "thank you". If doing so was needed to get money, that's what they'd have done. Anyways, i was very surprised to see they chose my favorite free software license -- the AGPLv3 (I like using em-dashes but i'm not a bot)

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