{"slug": "warp", "name": "Warp", "category": "terminal", "category_name": "Terminal and shell", "description": "A modern terminal emulator with built-in AI agent and command-editing features.", "recommenders": 7, "commenters": 18, "warners": 8, "score": -0.403, "rising": 1.69, "first": "2025-11-22", "latest": "2026-10-30", "why": "Liked for good out-of-the-box defaults, fast rendering and editor-like command editing, and some use it daily for devops and sysadmin work.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 7, "neutral": 3, "compare": 0, "warn": 8}, "spark": [1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": ["Sane defaults", "Daily driver"], "caveat": "AI bloat", "short_quote": "It's been my go-to terminal emulator for a few years", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": "github.com/sqliteai/warp", "official_url": "https://www.warp.dev", "pricing": "freemium", "aliases": ["Warp", "warp"], "verdict": [{"text": "Liked for good out-of-the-box defaults, fast rendering and editor-like command editing", "cites": [{"id": 767164480, "item_id": 47947780, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947780", "by": "Bayart", "date": "2026-04-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's been my go-to terminal emulator for a few years", "excerpt": "Glad to see such a move from the Wrap team. It's been my go-to terminal emulator for a few years due to : - Being able to drop in a brand new laptop and have almost all I need out of warp and a barebones ZSH configuration. I used to spend a lot of time on getting ZSH both fast and feature-rich, and it's brittle. Warp by default provides good auto-complete etc. - Fast rendering and sane graphical defaults. I don't nee", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal emulator", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp is now open-source"}, {"id": 804922480, "item_id": 50307655, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307655", "by": "albertgoeswoof", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it\u2019s gotten so slow and weird, that I can\u2019t stand it anymore", "excerpt": "I got used to warp\u2019s terminal, with really nice text editing, but it\u2019s gotten so slow and weird, that I can\u2019t stand it anymore. After trying out all the others ghostty, alacritty etc. I still found it incredibly annoying to have to navigate with different shortcuts from the rest of my stack, sometimes copying and pasting commands back and forth into my text editor just to edit and run them. 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I'm asking, because before warp came out, I also thought about creating a terminal as a side proj", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal, generating commands", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp Terminal Doing a Pricing Shock for Canadian Users \u2013 10\u00d7 Increase on Credits"}]}, {"text": ", and some use it daily for devops and sysadmin work.", "cites": [{"id": 791899872, "item_id": 49493742, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49493742", "by": "conception", "date": "2026-08-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it every day for terminal stuff", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve never heard of anyone using it for dev. That said I use it every day for terminal stuff and know a few others that do as well. It\u2019s a bad pivot for them to focus on swe. Devops/sysadmin stuff is pretty amazing with warp. That number is probably closer to 800k.", "context": "Daily terminal user", "use_case": "terminal and devops/sysadmin tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude"}, {"id": 786796176, "item_id": 49174761, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174761", "by": "dmix", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use ZSH in Warp daily and never had this problem with ls.", "excerpt": "FWIW I use ZSH in Warp daily and never had this problem with ls. Although I have experienced the the agent prediction doing a false positive auto-switch thing a few times.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Warp Agent CLI"}]}, {"text": " The most common complaint is that its pivot toward AI agents crowded out the core terminal", "cites": [{"id": 786797057, "item_id": 49174816, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174816", "by": "wuhhh", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "warn", "quote": "they started cramming more and more AI in everywhere, took over half the input area and you could just see there was no coming back.", "excerpt": "Warp was so promising to begin with - super clean and polished UI, AI features that actually made sense, really good dev outreach & PR. Over time, they started cramming more and more AI in everywhere, took over half the input area and you could just see there was no coming back. This is why VC backed software will always stink in the end. I use ghostty now.", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Warp Agent CLI"}, {"id": 767053712, "item_id": 47940857, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940857", "by": "redlewel", "date": "2026-04-28", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Was interested to try until I saw it was no longer a terminal and is now a coding agent?", "excerpt": "Was interested to try until I saw it was no longer a terminal and is now a coding agent? There are already dozens of those, I use my terminal to launch coding agents I don't need it to be one.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp is now Open-Source"}, {"id": 786765904, "item_id": 49172869, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172869", "by": "lexicality", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the actual terminal features became more and more buggy and I ended up having to go back to WezTerm.", "excerpt": "I used to really like Warp, back when it was just a terminal. Then as they went more and more in on AI the actual terminal features became more and more buggy and I ended up having to go back to WezTerm. Why is every company seemingly trying to re-implement agents themselves rather than making their product work with the existing ones?", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Warp Agent CLI"}, {"id": 791899872, "item_id": 49493742, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49493742", "by": "conception", "date": "2026-08-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it every day for terminal stuff", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve never heard of anyone using it for dev. That said I use it every day for terminal stuff and know a few others that do as well. It\u2019s a bad pivot for them to focus on swe. Devops/sysadmin stuff is pretty amazing with warp. That number is probably closer to 800k.", "context": "Daily terminal user", "use_case": "terminal and devops/sysadmin tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude"}]}, {"text": ", with former users citing unrequested UI changes, bugs and slowdowns.", "cites": [{"id": 767074384, "item_id": 47942149, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942149", "by": "jdejean", "date": "2026-04-28", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Then one day, I opened it up to find the command bar was replaced with a natural language prompt.", "excerpt": "I loved using Warp. I used it daily for over a year. Setup workflow scripts and customizations, it worked almost exactly how I wanted it to. Then one day, I opened it up to find the command bar was replaced with a natural language prompt. It changed the behavior subtly, and changed how the prompt looked. I uninstalled. I don\u2019t care that you can opt out. My gripe isn\u2019t about AI. I don\u2019t want my tools and workflows cha", "context": "used Warp daily for over a year", "use_case": "terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp is now Open-Source"}, {"id": 767073072, "item_id": 47942067, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942067", "by": "drakenot", "date": "2026-04-28", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Then a couple months ago they completely changed the UI.  It doesn\u2019t work as it once did.", "excerpt": "I used to like Warp and was a paying customer. It had a simple UI with a clear button / key combo to toggle the \u201cagent mode\u201d. That, plus the fact it could \u201cwarpify\u201d my SSH connections made this a useful utility. Then a couple months ago they completely changed the UI. It doesn\u2019t work as it once did. My saved prompt templates didn\u2019t work as they did before, the agent toggle was gone (you can now start some \u2018/agent\u2019 co", "context": "former paying customer", "use_case": "terminal with agent mode and SSH", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp is now Open-Source"}, {"id": 804922480, "item_id": 50307655, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307655", "by": "albertgoeswoof", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it\u2019s gotten so slow and weird, that I can\u2019t stand it anymore", "excerpt": "I got used to warp\u2019s terminal, with really nice text editing, but it\u2019s gotten so slow and weird, that I can\u2019t stand it anymore. After trying out all the others ghostty, alacritty etc. I still found it incredibly annoying to have to navigate with different shortcuts from the rest of my stack, sometimes copying and pasting commands back and forth into my text editor just to edit and run them. So I wrote this, and I\u2019m d", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Prompt \u2013 A New, Beautiful Terminal"}, {"id": 786765904, "item_id": 49172869, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172869", "by": "lexicality", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the actual terminal features became more and more buggy and I ended up having to go back to WezTerm.", "excerpt": "I used to really like Warp, back when it was just a terminal. Then as they went more and more in on AI the actual terminal features became more and more buggy and I ended up having to go back to WezTerm. Why is every company seemingly trying to re-implement agents themselves rather than making their product work with the existing ones?", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Warp Agent CLI"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Sane defaults", "summary": "Works well out of the box with good autocomplete and little shell configuration needed.", "quotes": [{"id": 767164480, "item_id": 47947780, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947780", "by": "Bayart", "date": "2026-04-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's been my go-to terminal emulator for a few years", "excerpt": "Glad to see such a move from the Wrap team. It's been my go-to terminal emulator for a few years due to : - Being able to drop in a brand new laptop and have almost all I need out of warp and a barebones ZSH configuration. I used to spend a lot of time on getting ZSH both fast and feature-rich, and it's brittle. Warp by default provides good auto-complete etc. - Fast rendering and sane graphical defaults. I don't nee", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal emulator", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp is now open-source"}, {"id": 736231728, "item_id": 46014483, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46014483", "by": "billconan", "date": "2025-11-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love warp's usability, but I don't find its integrated ai that useful.", "excerpt": "I'm curious what you use its ai for? so far I only use it to come up with long and chained commands I don't remember. for example, kill all processes match certain pattern, count the lines of code of certain files under a repo kill processes listening to certain ports. but other than a few use cases, I don't use it much. I'm asking, because before warp came out, I also thought about creating a terminal as a side proj", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal, generating commands", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp Terminal Doing a Pricing Shock for Canadian Users \u2013 10\u00d7 Increase on Credits"}]}, {"label": "Daily driver", "summary": "Several commenters use it every day, especially for devops and sysadmin tasks.", "quotes": [{"id": 791899872, "item_id": 49493742, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49493742", "by": "conception", "date": "2026-08-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it every day for terminal stuff", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve never heard of anyone using it for dev. That said I use it every day for terminal stuff and know a few others that do as well. It\u2019s a bad pivot for them to focus on swe. Devops/sysadmin stuff is pretty amazing with warp. That number is probably closer to 800k.", "context": "Daily terminal user", "use_case": "terminal and devops/sysadmin tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude"}, {"id": 786796176, "item_id": 49174761, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174761", "by": "dmix", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use ZSH in Warp daily and never had this problem with ls.", "excerpt": "FWIW I use ZSH in Warp daily and never had this problem with ls. Although I have experienced the the agent prediction doing a false positive auto-switch thing a few times.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Warp Agent CLI"}, {"id": 767164480, "item_id": 47947780, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947780", "by": "Bayart", "date": "2026-04-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's been my go-to terminal emulator for a few years", "excerpt": "Glad to see such a move from the Wrap team. It's been my go-to terminal emulator for a few years due to : - Being able to drop in a brand new laptop and have almost all I need out of warp and a barebones ZSH configuration. I used to spend a lot of time on getting ZSH both fast and feature-rich, and it's brittle. Warp by default provides good auto-complete etc. - Fast rendering and sane graphical defaults. I don't nee", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal emulator", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp is now open-source"}]}, {"label": "AI assistance", "summary": "Some find its AI useful for writing long commands or fixing configs.", "quotes": [{"id": 757990161, "item_id": 47374385, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47374385", "by": "komali2", "date": "2026-03-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I pointed Warp at my emacs config, said my problems, and said \"fix plz,\" and it did.", "excerpt": "> Imagine an AI assistant that can read your org-mode agenda, draft email replies in mu4e, help you write commit messages in Magit, and refactor code in your source buffers \u2013 all within the same environment, sharing context. No other editor architecture makes this kind of deep, cross-domain integration as natural as Emacs does. I've been a devout emacs amateur for 10 years, and recently learned nvim/lazy.vim because ", "context": "", "use_case": "fixing editor config", "switched_from": "", "story": "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"}, {"id": 743177539, "item_id": 46448596, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46448596", "by": "civancza", "date": "2025-12-31", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i use claude or gemini in Cursor or Warp", "excerpt": "1% probably? i use claude or gemini in Cursor or Warp. it's a game changer. Now i can focus on stuff like research, architecting, marketing etc.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding in terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What percentage of code do you still write by hand?"}, {"id": 736231728, "item_id": 46014483, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46014483", "by": "billconan", "date": "2025-11-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love warp's usability, but I don't find its integrated ai that useful.", "excerpt": "I'm curious what you use its ai for? so far I only use it to come up with long and chained commands I don't remember. for example, kill all processes match certain pattern, count the lines of code of certain files under a repo kill processes listening to certain ports. but other than a few use cases, I don't use it much. I'm asking, because before warp came out, I also thought about creating a terminal as a side proj", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal, generating commands", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp Terminal Doing a Pricing Shock for Canadian Users \u2013 10\u00d7 Increase on Credits"}]}, {"label": "Text editing", "summary": "Its command-line text editing is described as really nice.", "quotes": [{"id": 804922480, "item_id": 50307655, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307655", "by": "albertgoeswoof", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it\u2019s gotten so slow and weird, that I can\u2019t stand it anymore", "excerpt": "I got used to warp\u2019s terminal, with really nice text editing, but it\u2019s gotten so slow and weird, that I can\u2019t stand it anymore. After trying out all the others ghostty, alacritty etc. I still found it incredibly annoying to have to navigate with different shortcuts from the rest of my stack, sometimes copying and pasting commands back and forth into my text editor just to edit and run them. So I wrote this, and I\u2019m d", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Prompt \u2013 A New, Beautiful Terminal"}]}, {"label": "Optional AI", "summary": "Users note the AI features can be turned off.", "quotes": [{"id": 786778128, "item_id": 49173633, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173633", "by": "bethekidyouwant", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use warp if you don\u2019t like the AI stuff you can turn it off.", "excerpt": "I use warp if you don\u2019t like the AI stuff you can turn it off.", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Warp Agent CLI"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "AI bloat", "summary": "Commenters say AI features increasingly took over the terminal and its interface.", "quotes": [{"id": 786797057, "item_id": 49174816, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174816", "by": "wuhhh", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "warn", "quote": "they started cramming more and more AI in everywhere, took over half the input area and you could just see there was no coming back.", "excerpt": "Warp was so promising to begin with - super clean and polished UI, AI features that actually made sense, really good dev outreach & PR. Over time, they started cramming more and more AI in everywhere, took over half the input area and you could just see there was no coming back. This is why VC backed software will always stink in the end. I use ghostty now.", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Warp Agent CLI"}, {"id": 767053712, "item_id": 47940857, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940857", "by": "redlewel", "date": "2026-04-28", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Was interested to try until I saw it was no longer a terminal and is now a coding agent?", "excerpt": "Was interested to try until I saw it was no longer a terminal and is now a coding agent? There are already dozens of those, I use my terminal to launch coding agents I don't need it to be one.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp is now Open-Source"}, {"id": 786765904, "item_id": 49172869, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172869", "by": "lexicality", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the actual terminal features became more and more buggy and I ended up having to go back to WezTerm.", "excerpt": "I used to really like Warp, back when it was just a terminal. Then as they went more and more in on AI the actual terminal features became more and more buggy and I ended up having to go back to WezTerm. Why is every company seemingly trying to re-implement agents themselves rather than making their product work with the existing ones?", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Warp Agent CLI"}]}, {"label": "Unrequested UI changes", "summary": "Long-time users left after UI and behavior changed without opt-in, breaking workflows.", "quotes": [{"id": 767074384, "item_id": 47942149, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942149", "by": "jdejean", "date": "2026-04-28", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Then one day, I opened it up to find the command bar was replaced with a natural language prompt.", "excerpt": "I loved using Warp. I used it daily for over a year. Setup workflow scripts and customizations, it worked almost exactly how I wanted it to. Then one day, I opened it up to find the command bar was replaced with a natural language prompt. It changed the behavior subtly, and changed how the prompt looked. I uninstalled. I don\u2019t care that you can opt out. My gripe isn\u2019t about AI. I don\u2019t want my tools and workflows cha", "context": "used Warp daily for over a year", "use_case": "terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp is now Open-Source"}, {"id": 767073072, "item_id": 47942067, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942067", "by": "drakenot", "date": "2026-04-28", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Then a couple months ago they completely changed the UI.  It doesn\u2019t work as it once did.", "excerpt": "I used to like Warp and was a paying customer. It had a simple UI with a clear button / key combo to toggle the \u201cagent mode\u201d. That, plus the fact it could \u201cwarpify\u201d my SSH connections made this a useful utility. Then a couple months ago they completely changed the UI. It doesn\u2019t work as it once did. My saved prompt templates didn\u2019t work as they did before, the agent toggle was gone (you can now start some \u2018/agent\u2019 co", "context": "former paying customer", "use_case": "terminal with agent mode and SSH", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp is now Open-Source"}]}, {"label": "Bugs and slowness", "summary": "Some report the terminal became slow and buggy over time.", "quotes": [{"id": 804922480, "item_id": 50307655, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307655", "by": "albertgoeswoof", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it\u2019s gotten so slow and weird, that I can\u2019t stand it anymore", "excerpt": "I got used to warp\u2019s terminal, with really nice text editing, but it\u2019s gotten so slow and weird, that I can\u2019t stand it anymore. After trying out all the others ghostty, alacritty etc. I still found it incredibly annoying to have to navigate with different shortcuts from the rest of my stack, sometimes copying and pasting commands back and forth into my text editor just to edit and run them. So I wrote this, and I\u2019m d", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Prompt \u2013 A New, Beautiful Terminal"}, {"id": 786765904, "item_id": 49172869, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172869", "by": "lexicality", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the actual terminal features became more and more buggy and I ended up having to go back to WezTerm.", "excerpt": "I used to really like Warp, back when it was just a terminal. Then as they went more and more in on AI the actual terminal features became more and more buggy and I ended up having to go back to WezTerm. Why is every company seemingly trying to re-implement agents themselves rather than making their product work with the existing ones?", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Warp Agent CLI"}]}, {"label": "Subscription push", "summary": "Prompts to subscribe and agent lock-in put some users off.", "quotes": [{"id": 803348880, "item_id": 50209305, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50209305", "by": "Syntaf", "date": "2026-10-23", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the second my own _terminal_ tried to get me to subscribe to a monthly plan I uninstalled that shit so fast.", "excerpt": "I heard some chatter about Warp some six months ago and decided to give it a try. Blew my mind that a terminal with an LLM wrapper side-panel raised $80M I'm sure there's some impressive stuff in there that the warp team built but also the second my own _terminal_ tried to get me to subscribe to a monthly plan I uninstalled that shit so fast.", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?"}, {"id": 786820801, "item_id": 49176300, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176300", "by": "ahmadyan", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it is a good business but poor user experience.", "excerpt": "> Why is every company seemingly trying to re-implement agents themselves rather than making their product work with the existing ones? Well, i'm trying to do the later, and it is very hard to position the product and differentiate without vertical integration. When Warp owns both agent and the terminal, they can a) give terminal for free and charge on the agent, and b) lock the user in, so it is a good business but ", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal with built-in agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Warp Agent CLI"}]}, {"label": "Agent misfires", "summary": "Agent prediction sometimes falsely auto-switches modes.", "quotes": [{"id": 786796176, "item_id": 49174761, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174761", "by": "dmix", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use ZSH in Warp daily and never had this problem with ls.", "excerpt": "FWIW I use ZSH in Warp daily and never had this problem with ls. Although I have experienced the the agent prediction doing a false positive auto-switch thing a few times.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Warp Agent CLI"}]}], "who": [{"by": "conception", "context": "Daily terminal user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49493742", "date": "2026-08-29"}], "tags": ["for devops and sysadmins", "for zsh users", "AI-assisted terminal"], "use_cases": ["terminal", "file sharing", "terminal and devops/sysadmin tasks", "local llm inference from nvme", "terminal with built-in agent", "daily terminal"], "compared": [{"slug": "ghostty", "name": "Ghostty", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 2}, {"slug": "wezterm", "name": "WezTerm", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "cursor", "name": "Cursor", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "croc", "name": "croc", "co": 1, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "superset", "name": "Superset", "co": 1, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "claude", "name": "Claude", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "iterm2", "name": "iTerm2", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 782341249, "item_id": 48896328, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896328", "by": "jbwinters", "date": "2026-07-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "a testing framework called Warp, which combines replay, results caching, handler substitution", "excerpt": "I'm fascinated by the generative AI wave rolling over us, and wondered if AI could create a language that it might prefer using over the ones created by and for humans. To create the design, I had AI analyze the ASTs of several mainstream languages plus a few of the conceptually groundbreaking but esoteric ones (listed in the README) and then create a new structure and new syntax. It was named after the Jacquard mach", "context": "", "use_case": "testing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code"}, {"id": 767202256, "item_id": 47950141, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950141", "by": "alokedesai", "date": "2026-04-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Our motivation with open sourcing is to build more trust with our community, not less.", "excerpt": "For transparency, the issue with telemetry turning back on after an app restart was a very bad bug introduced yesterday that only affected new users; this is P0 for us to fix and we\u2019ll have a new release out in the next few hours with a fix. The PR is here https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp/pull/9438/ if you want to follow along. To add more color to some of your points in the post above: * We give users the option t", "context": "works on Warp", "use_case": "terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp is now open-source"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171766", "title": "The Warp Agent CLI", "mentions": 5}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937349", "title": "Warp is now Open-Source", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936264", "title": "Warp is now open-source", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307568", "title": "Show HN: Prompt \u2013 A New, Beautiful Terminal", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50200997", "title": "Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746346", "title": "Show HN: Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 1}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-04": {"warn": 3, "recommend": 1}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {"warn": 3, "recommend": 3, "neutral": 1}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-10": {"warn": 2}}, "quotes": [{"id": 804922480, "item_id": 50307655, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307655", "by": "albertgoeswoof", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it\u2019s gotten so slow and weird, that I can\u2019t stand it anymore", "excerpt": "I got used to warp\u2019s terminal, with really nice text editing, but it\u2019s gotten so slow and weird, that I can\u2019t stand it anymore. After trying out all the others ghostty, alacritty etc. I still found it incredibly annoying to have to navigate with different shortcuts from the rest of my stack, sometimes copying and pasting commands back and forth into my text editor just to edit and run them. So I wrote this, and I\u2019m d", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Prompt \u2013 A New, Beautiful Terminal"}, {"id": 803348880, "item_id": 50209305, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50209305", "by": "Syntaf", "date": "2026-10-23", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the second my own _terminal_ tried to get me to subscribe to a monthly plan I uninstalled that shit so fast.", "excerpt": "I heard some chatter about Warp some six months ago and decided to give it a try. Blew my mind that a terminal with an LLM wrapper side-panel raised $80M I'm sure there's some impressive stuff in there that the warp team built but also the second my own _terminal_ tried to get me to subscribe to a monthly plan I uninstalled that shit so fast.", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?"}, {"id": 795964818, "item_id": 49747801, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49747801", "by": "Redster", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used magic-wormhole-based Warp and liked it", "excerpt": "If you like Snapdrop, you'll love croc! I used Snapdrop before they got bought and found it pretty reliable. It sometimes would not transfer and I went exploring. I used magic-wormhole-based Warp and liked it, but now I use croc of getcroc.com for almost everything. Whether it's sending files to myself or others, it's just the most flexible and seems to be reliable and fast from my use. (I haven't been using it super", "context": "", "use_case": "file sharing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup"}, {"id": 791899872, "item_id": 49493742, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49493742", "by": "conception", "date": "2026-08-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it every day for terminal stuff", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve never heard of anyone using it for dev. That said I use it every day for terminal stuff and know a few others that do as well. It\u2019s a bad pivot for them to focus on swe. Devops/sysadmin stuff is pretty amazing with warp. That number is probably closer to 800k.", "context": "Daily terminal user", "use_case": "terminal and devops/sysadmin tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude"}, {"id": 788831346, "item_id": 49301959, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301959", "by": "literoldolphin", "date": "2026-08-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "All of these run perfectly fine on simple m4 silicone", "excerpt": "Why is anyone even using video cards these days? You may as well be burning cash. This is the perfect candidate for just splattering it on your nvme and then reading it off there and into memory. All of these run perfectly fine on simple m4 silicone: https://github.com/drumih/turbo-fieldfare https://github.com/leonickson1/Swiftlet https://github.com/sqliteai/warp", "context": "", "use_case": "local LLM inference from NVMe", "switched_from": "", "story": "Qwen 3.8 27B is out: open weights, best local dense model yet"}, {"id": 786820801, "item_id": 49176300, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176300", "by": "ahmadyan", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it is a good business but poor user experience.", "excerpt": "> Why is every company seemingly trying to re-implement agents themselves rather than making their product work with the existing ones? Well, i'm trying to do the later, and it is very hard to position the product and differentiate without vertical integration. When Warp owns both agent and the terminal, they can a) give terminal for free and charge on the agent, and b) lock the user in, so it is a good business but ", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal with built-in agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Warp Agent CLI"}, {"id": 786797057, "item_id": 49174816, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174816", "by": "wuhhh", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "warn", "quote": "they started cramming more and more AI in everywhere, took over half the input area and you could just see there was no coming back.", "excerpt": "Warp was so promising to begin with - super clean and polished UI, AI features that actually made sense, really good dev outreach & PR. Over time, they started cramming more and more AI in everywhere, took over half the input area and you could just see there was no coming back. This is why VC backed software will always stink in the end. I use ghostty now.", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Warp Agent CLI"}, {"id": 786796176, "item_id": 49174761, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174761", "by": "dmix", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use ZSH in Warp daily and never had this problem with ls.", "excerpt": "FWIW I use ZSH in Warp daily and never had this problem with ls. Although I have experienced the the agent prediction doing a false positive auto-switch thing a few times.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Warp Agent CLI"}, {"id": 786778128, "item_id": 49173633, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173633", "by": "bethekidyouwant", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use warp if you don\u2019t like the AI stuff you can turn it off.", "excerpt": "I use warp if you don\u2019t like the AI stuff you can turn it off.", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Warp Agent CLI"}, {"id": 786765904, "item_id": 49172869, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172869", "by": "lexicality", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the actual terminal features became more and more buggy and I ended up having to go back to WezTerm.", "excerpt": "I used to really like Warp, back when it was just a terminal. Then as they went more and more in on AI the actual terminal features became more and more buggy and I ended up having to go back to WezTerm. Why is every company seemingly trying to re-implement agents themselves rather than making their product work with the existing ones?", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Warp Agent CLI"}, {"id": 780497632, "item_id": 48781102, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781102", "by": "gozucito", "date": "2026-07-03", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "2 to 5 tabs in warp.", "excerpt": "2 to 5 tabs in warp. Kinda want to figure out how to properly use iterm+tmux to have the boris cherny experience. already used both but there were issues with tmux with either scroll back, or copy paste or other similar things that get broken, even after mesing with settings. i use git worktrees in different tabs as needed. i have git push hooks that audit the code diffs for security issues by 2+ frontier models For ", "context": "", "use_case": "running parallel coding agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?"}, {"id": 767164480, "item_id": 47947780, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947780", "by": "Bayart", "date": "2026-04-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's been my go-to terminal emulator for a few years", "excerpt": "Glad to see such a move from the Wrap team. It's been my go-to terminal emulator for a few years due to : - Being able to drop in a brand new laptop and have almost all I need out of warp and a barebones ZSH configuration. I used to spend a lot of time on getting ZSH both fast and feature-rich, and it's brittle. Warp by default provides good auto-complete etc. - Fast rendering and sane graphical defaults. I don't nee", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal emulator", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp is now open-source"}, {"id": 767074384, "item_id": 47942149, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942149", "by": "jdejean", "date": "2026-04-28", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Then one day, I opened it up to find the command bar was replaced with a natural language prompt.", "excerpt": "I loved using Warp. I used it daily for over a year. Setup workflow scripts and customizations, it worked almost exactly how I wanted it to. Then one day, I opened it up to find the command bar was replaced with a natural language prompt. It changed the behavior subtly, and changed how the prompt looked. I uninstalled. I don\u2019t care that you can opt out. My gripe isn\u2019t about AI. I don\u2019t want my tools and workflows cha", "context": "used Warp daily for over a year", "use_case": "terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp is now Open-Source"}, {"id": 767073072, "item_id": 47942067, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942067", "by": "drakenot", "date": "2026-04-28", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Then a couple months ago they completely changed the UI.  It doesn\u2019t work as it once did.", "excerpt": "I used to like Warp and was a paying customer. It had a simple UI with a clear button / key combo to toggle the \u201cagent mode\u201d. That, plus the fact it could \u201cwarpify\u201d my SSH connections made this a useful utility. Then a couple months ago they completely changed the UI. It doesn\u2019t work as it once did. My saved prompt templates didn\u2019t work as they did before, the agent toggle was gone (you can now start some \u2018/agent\u2019 co", "context": "former paying customer", "use_case": "terminal with agent mode and SSH", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp is now Open-Source"}, {"id": 767053712, "item_id": 47940857, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940857", "by": "redlewel", "date": "2026-04-28", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Was interested to try until I saw it was no longer a terminal and is now a coding agent?", "excerpt": "Was interested to try until I saw it was no longer a terminal and is now a coding agent? There are already dozens of those, I use my terminal to launch coding agents I don't need it to be one.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp is now Open-Source"}, {"id": 757990161, "item_id": 47374385, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47374385", "by": "komali2", "date": "2026-03-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I pointed Warp at my emacs config, said my problems, and said \"fix plz,\" and it did.", "excerpt": "> Imagine an AI assistant that can read your org-mode agenda, draft email replies in mu4e, help you write commit messages in Magit, and refactor code in your source buffers \u2013 all within the same environment, sharing context. No other editor architecture makes this kind of deep, cross-domain integration as natural as Emacs does. I've been a devout emacs amateur for 10 years, and recently learned nvim/lazy.vim because ", "context": "", "use_case": "fixing editor config", "switched_from": "", "story": "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"}, {"id": 743177539, "item_id": 46448596, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46448596", "by": "civancza", "date": "2025-12-31", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i use claude or gemini in Cursor or Warp", "excerpt": "1% probably? i use claude or gemini in Cursor or Warp. it's a game changer. Now i can focus on stuff like research, architecting, marketing etc.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding in terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What percentage of code do you still write by hand?"}, {"id": 736231728, "item_id": 46014483, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46014483", "by": "billconan", "date": "2025-11-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love warp's usability, but I don't find its integrated ai that useful.", "excerpt": "I'm curious what you use its ai for? so far I only use it to come up with long and chained commands I don't remember. for example, kill all processes match certain pattern, count the lines of code of certain files under a repo kill processes listening to certain ports. but other than a few use cases, I don't use it much. I'm asking, because before warp came out, I also thought about creating a terminal as a side proj", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal, generating commands", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp Terminal Doing a Pricing Shock for Canadian Users \u2013 10\u00d7 Increase on Credits"}]}