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New comment by zachlloyd in "Warp is now open-source"

zachlloyd — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:14:09 +0000

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)

New comment by zachlloyd in "Warp is now open-source"

zachlloyd — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:13:10 +0000

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.

New comment by zachlloyd in "Warp is now Open-Source"

zachlloyd — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:17:10 +0000

that's fair. we try to be opinionated on the default experience but allow a lot of customizability.

New comment by zachlloyd in "Warp is now open-source"

zachlloyd — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:15:53 +0000

thanks for the support here. we are very grateful for the help you all provided initially, and if you are interested in sponsorship for the repo, we are also happy to provide some. alacritty is awesome

New comment by zachlloyd in "Warp is now open-source"

zachlloyd — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:14:30 +0000

that's the correct read - we shared what we were building and they helped us integrate alacritty. it's similar to how mitchell h reached out and asked today if we wanted to integrate ghostty.

we have a lot of open source library dependencies and are grateful to the folks who worked on them

New comment by zachlloyd in "Warp is now open-source"

zachlloyd — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:37:20 +0000

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.

New comment by zachlloyd in "Warp is now Open-Source"

zachlloyd — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:36:01 +0000

Glad the workflow is working for you!

In terms of monetization, we actually don't monetize the terminal at all, we monetize our agent and our orchestration platform (www.oz.dev). Totally happy for you to use Claude or Codex CLI within Warp as your main driver.

New comment by zachlloyd in "Warp is now open-source"

zachlloyd — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:54:23 +0000

It's still a terminal at its core, and you can use it to run any CLI coding agent or use our built in agent.

We've added features to make using CLI coding agents easier (e.g. a file tree and code review) but they are all optional and customizable.

New comment by zachlloyd in "Warp is now open-source"

zachlloyd — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:51:36 +0000

Warp founder here. Great question.

I outline the thought process in detail in our blog (https://www.warp.dev/blog/warp-is-now-open-source)

But the tl;dr is that I actually think we can build a better product, more quickly if we build it with our community + agents. I also think it's a unique product that I hope developers get a bunch of value from being able to customize and help improve. Our business is now mostly around agents and orchestration through Oz (https://oz.dev), so opening up the client and terminal felt natural.

The big thing for the "why now" though was the agent management piece.

Wrt the github stars, we had an issues-only repo prior and already had a significant number of stars before OSS today.

New comment by zachlloyd in "Warp is now open-source"

zachlloyd — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:46:29 +0000

Warp founder here. Totally understood on the feedback - one thing I would call out is that we actually worked with Alacritty on the initial implementation and they were super helpful and we are grateful for their support.

New comment by zachlloyd in "Warp is now open-source"

zachlloyd — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:40:18 +0000

This is on our public roadmap actually. Would love to work with the community on this.

New comment by zachlloyd in "Warp is now open-source"

zachlloyd — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:39:43 +0000

Correct, we got rid of this requirement a couple of years ago. No login required at all, except for using AI and team features.

New comment by zachlloyd in "Warp is now open-source"

zachlloyd — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:39:09 +0000

Warp founder here. We actually are chatting with Mitchell about integrating Ghostty so it's the terminal grid renderer within Warp.

New comment by zachlloyd in "Warp is now open-source"

zachlloyd — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:34:26 +0000

correct - our business is our agent and orchestrator, not our terminal.

New comment by zachlloyd in "Warp is now open-source"

zachlloyd — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:26:11 +0000

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?

We will all be digital gods: the death of apps and the rise of the meta-app

zachlloyd — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:44:54 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/zachlloydtweets/status/2027480476730925116

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47201171

Points: 4

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New comment by zachlloyd in "Warp terminal – no more login required"

zachlloyd — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 23:41:46 +0000

fair.

there is a large segment of developers who find the command line hard to use or who just want a better, more productive experience using it. to be clear, you may not fall into that bucket, and that's OK.

the point of the login is that we have features that cost us money to provide like AI, and we need some concept of identity to prevent their abuse. i don't think that's detestable (e.g. it's very similar to cursor or copilot), but i get that's a new behavior in the terminal and am sorry it put you off.

New comment by zachlloyd in "Warp terminal – no more login required"

zachlloyd — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 23:38:22 +0000

fair criticism, and this is the reason we removed the login requirement.

just to clarify though, the point of the login is that we have features that cost money to provide like AI and collaboration, not anything more nefarious, but i get that it's a new behavior and reasonable devs might not like it.

Warp terminal – no more login required

zachlloyd — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:14:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.warp.dev/blog/lifting-login-requirement

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42247583

Points: 73

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Solve problems, don't just talk about them: Design interviews at early startups

zachlloyd — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:22:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.warp.dev/blog/how-to-snag-a-design-role-at-an-early-stage-startup

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38366768

Points: 1

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