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Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by mkroman »

SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #74
arionmiles wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who are their highly funded closed-source competitors they claim Warp cannot beat on price? Warp is the only closed source terminal product I know of. Most other popular terminal emulators are open source already. I feel like their funding is drying up and this is their last ditch effort to have the "community" build their product for them. They claim agents will run the show, with inputs from community in the form o…

I'm not too familiar with Warp so can someone help clarify for me: Is Warp a terminal? Or an agent harness? Or both? Warp as a terminal to me seems less interesting than having a well built agent harness like OpenCode that can effectively use many different models. If it's both, is there any advantage to having them be the same thing? Like, is there any way your harness can be smarter if it is also tightly integrated…

It's a terminal. It was a terminal before they pivoted to AI (I don't blame them, with their funding rounds I don't see them having particularly free reins) Before this, it was all about collaborative (CRDT) features. I have no idea why you'd want a terminal that is also an agent harness, but I appreciate them making it open source none the less.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by brookst »

duskdozer wrote: post #69
godelski wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> writing code is now fast, it's getting cheaper, and quality is going up to the right I'm unconvinced... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579

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.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by seanhunter »

eddyg wrote: post #31
miav wrote: post #9

Holy shit this made my day. Warp’s convenience shell wrapping is amazing. It’s the only terminal where I can actually edit a long command in place rather than copy pasting into an editor and doing so there. Now I’m more or less assured I can retain this convenience without being forced into more AI crap.

^X^E in bash takes your current prompt and moves it to your $EDITOR. for zsh: autoload edit-command-line zle -N edit-command-line bindkey '^X^E' edit-command-line

or just type "fc" to edit the previous command.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by wateralien »

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.

100,000% I loved it when it was JUST good at terminal rendering. Ghostty alternative. Not a crazy bloatware AI play.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by Lalabadie »

aniceperson wrote: post #34
tedd4u wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GitHub is going to go after this too (unsurprisingly). Working "Ace" prototype from Github "lab." https://maggieappleton.com/zero-alignment/

the presenter is pretty sane, but the product is hardly a product at the current scenario. pretty much codemirror 6 collaborative editing demo + vm running claude code, with a web GUI. will fall apart with large code bases just like vscode, github codespaces and co. do, and expensive for llms to run against. Would be nice to see the foundational problems being worked on instead of regurgiting what everybody is doing.

That's immediately addressed in the talk. It's a GH Labs experiment.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by lproven »

opens link...

... it's not about OS/2 3 or 4, but some AI thing, and apparently feels no need to disambiguate or even acknowledge the prior usage of its name

... closes tab

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by mzajc »

egorfine wrote: post #77

Can you confirm that Warp is NOT initiating any connection to any service whatsoever unless explicitly enabled in Settings? Warp had an account requirement in the beginning which spoke volumes about the misalignment of values. Now the terminal is not called a terminal, it is "the agentic development environment" (whatever that means) which also lowkey implies that it might have some kind of online features. But at th…

> Does it call home?

Absolutely, in heaps. The very moment you start Warp, it sends 5 HTTP requests, (1 version check, 1 LLM model list, 3 telemetry events). The former two go to app.warp.dev, the latter 3 go to warpianwzlfqdq.dataplane.rudderstack.com and include a persistent UUID, your operating system and version, Warp version, and the tracked event name and its properties.

All of this happens before you even see the window. After you're done clicking 'No' to all the SaaS nags, you can turn off telemetry in the settings, but for some reason it gets turned back on when you restart the terminal.

While the terminal is running, it calls home whenever you trip one of the events listed in this 7000-line long file: https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp/blob/d0f045c01bacbd845a63.... Besides all the hosts listed earlier, it also makes requests to o540343.ingest.sentry.io.

All in all, a privacy nightmare.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by amdivia »

eddyg wrote: post #31
miav wrote: post #9

Holy shit this made my day. Warp’s convenience shell wrapping is amazing. It’s the only terminal where I can actually edit a long command in place rather than copy pasting into an editor and doing so there. Now I’m more or less assured I can retain this convenience without being forced into more AI crap.

^X^E in bash takes your current prompt and moves it to your $EDITOR. for zsh: autoload edit-command-line zle -N edit-command-line bindkey '^X^E' edit-command-line

Or v for those using bash's vi mode

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by fortyseven »

lproven wrote: post #86

opens link... ... it's not about OS/2 3 or 4, but some AI thing, and apparently feels no need to disambiguate or even acknowledge the prior usage of its name ... closes tab

To be fair it's been quite a while now since OS/2 was relevant. It never even occurred to me that it might be connected to that mainstream news story.

Re: Warp is now open-source

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Post by Bayart »

arionmiles wrote: post #5
wxw wrote: post #2

> Open-sourcing is fundamentally coming from our desire to build a successful business. We are competing with other highly funded, closed-source competitors, and we think opening and providing the resources for the community to improve Warp is a smart way for us to accelerate product development. Yes, we are a VC funded startup, but we do not have the resources to compete on price or massively subsidize usage – we ne…

Who are their highly funded closed-source competitors they claim Warp cannot beat on price? Warp is the only closed source terminal product I know of. Most other popular terminal emulators are open source already. I feel like their funding is drying up and this is their last ditch effort to have the "community" build their product for them. They claim agents will run the show, with inputs from community in the form o…

> Who are their highly funded closed-source competitors they claim Warp cannot beat on price?

Agentic AI, broadly speaking. Including CLI agents and IDEs.

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