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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

#21

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?

Yes, and even going back over 2 years ago in Wayback Machine has Warp advertising AI autocorrect as one of its biggest features.

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

#23
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.

https://github.com/wavetermdev/waveterm

I'm a Warp fanboy. Claude Code has it beat for writing software, but Warp is magic for linux sys admin. I SSH into my home server and feel like a wizard, no more constantly switching to a web browser to Google stuff. The experience of staring at a text only terminal for hours without ever switching to a different window feels like using DOS before the internet. It's magical.

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

#25

Yeah I had such high hopes for Warp before it launched and then it's slowly enshittified. Turns out Ghostty was what I wanted all along.

Funny, when I google for Ghostty, the first result is a sponsored Warp link: https://i.imgur.com/QbAkY5L.png

VC money goes BRRRRRRR

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

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post #20

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 getti…

I started to use it right when it was released, long time before any LLM integration.

But fair point anyways.

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

#29
Yeah, its well known that Warp is a terminal that tries to harvest your command line executions and all keypresses.

I've been recommending to people, if you had Warp installed and accidentally typed in or viewed secrets or passwords in it, you may wish to change your passwords and secrets as they are now part of an LLM training set.

Many companies have banned AI tools like Warp due to the inherent security risk.

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

#30
post #14

So does every AI agent such as Claude Code. I’ll take the privacy risk for the 10x increase in productivity. To help mitigate the security risk I will be encrypting environment files and rotating secrets far more often.

Yea, I feel the same. I'm basically a noob compared to most power users here, and while I do prioritize privacy in many other areas, warp has been super powerful for me. One of the things that I use it for it to find out old unused files on my system and ask it to examine them and suggest if they can be deleted. It's very convenient.
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