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Warp 2.0: The Agentic Development Environment

by DanielKehoe on 6/24/25, 2:58 PM with 2 comments

• by nlh on 6/24/25, 5:30 PM

  I'm trying to think about why this bothers me so much. I'm a happy (I think?) user of Warp The Terminal (eg their product with all of the AI features turned off), and it's a really nice terminal.

  I think it bugs me because it feels like a company with a product in search of a problem, trying to maximize returns for their investors, cashing in the AI hype, instead of just trying to build a Really Good Product.

  Their terminal is Really Good! And in fact an AI-enabled terminal could even be Really Good - but they won't of course let you use your own API keys (because $markup$), and now they're pitching this whole "ADE" thing which just screams to me "Hey Cursor got a huge valuation so what's our secret sauce?".

  And look, I can't fault them -- they're doing exactly what VC-backed companies are built to do. I would probably be doing precisely the same thing if I were CEO.

  But it still bugs me.

• by sandywaffles on 6/24/25, 3:23 PM

  I was interested in this back when it was a next gen terminal, now not so much. From the marketing I can't even tell if this is still a terminal? I was quite confused for a while wondering if I was looking at the right "Warp" or if this was something new using the same name.