Desperate pivot aside, I don't see how anyone competes with the big labs on coding agents. They can serve the models at a fraction of the API cost, can trivially add post training to fill gaps and have way deeper enterprise penetration.

Specialization into specific parts of the life cycle, specific technologies and integration into specific systems.

Things like self hosting and data privacy, model optionality too.

Plenty of companies still don’t want to ship their code, agreement or not over to these vendors or be locked into their specific model.

I feel like it's totally the opposite.

The differentiator is the fact that the scaling myth was a lie. The GPT-5 flop should make that obvious enough. These guys are spending billions and can't make the models show more than a few % improvement. You need to actually innovate, e.g. tricks like MoE, tool calling, better cache utilization, concurrency, better prompting, CoT, data labeling, and so on.

Not two weeks ago some Chinese academics put out a paper called Deep Think With Confidence where they coaxed GPT-OSS-120B into thinking a little longer causing it to perform better on benchmarks than it did when OpenAI released it.

(1) Aside from having a worse (sorry, “lighter weight”) editor, how is this functionally different from Cursor?

(2) A Microsoft VP of product spends enough time writing code to be a relevant testimonial?

For me, the USP Warp used to have was generating shell commands from prompts inside the terminal - but Cursor has had this in its embedded terminal for a while now so increasingly I find myself using Ghostty instead

The part I don't get is the pricing. Seems like its pricing is solely based on requests. Then how would someone use gpt 4.1 when opus is charing the same price???

I switched to this and honestly, more or less feels the same as claude code except with a fancy UI and built-in mcp servers for automated memory management. But I am sticking to it so I don't have to deal with vendor lockin (I heavily disagree with what antrophic is doing when it comes to 'safety')

The difference to me is that I can quickly switch in and out of “AI mode” with Warp. So it’s a terminal when I want that, and it’s an AI assistant when I want that.

With Claude Code, you’re stuck in AI mode all the time (which is slow for running vanilla terminal commands) or you have to have a second window for just terminal commands.

Edit: just read some documentation saying Claude has a “bash mode” where it will actually pass through the commands, so off to try that out now.

> 97% acceptance rate

this concerns me given what I've seen generated by these tools. In 10? 5? 1? year(s) are we going to see an influx of CVEs or hiring of Senior+ level developers solely for the purpose of cleaning up these messes?

Insofar as CVEs issued for proprietary software, I would expect that the owning organization would not be inclined to blame AI code unless they think they can pass the buck.

But as for eventually having to hire senior developers to clean up the mess, I do expect that. Most organizations that think they can build and ship reliable products without human experts probably won’t be around long enough to be able to have actual CVEs issued. But larger organizations playing this game will eventually have to face some kind of reckoning.

I am not really convinced that rate is higher without AI tooling. CVEs existed before AI tools with only humans generating code...

Why would you need a human to fix it if you know what the CVE is.

All these monolithic agents are so wasteful. Having an agent orchestration service is so much more efficient and maintainable. My work in progress rust agent takes less cpu/memory for a whole swarm than one claude code instance.

What is the best thing you've built with the swarm? Is it measurably better in any way?

Would you be willing to share? I've been poking at this kind of thing, but I haven't had great success rolling my own agents.

My rust agent is closed source (at least right now, we'll see) but I'm happy to discuss details of how stuff works to get you going in the right direction.

Wasn’t Warp an (electron based) terminal?

Why suddenly agentic coding?

The real question is how does a startup that offers a terminal as its product command a $280 million valuation and need close to 100 employees?

While the value is questionable, it's more than just a dumb terminal, and they have better revenue as a percentage of valuation than Anthropic.

This announcement is the answer: It's not a terminal any more; it's an IDE.

AIDE

TM

Warp was never Electron-based. It's built with Rust

No. Its built atop rust iirc

There was an intermediate step where they introduced AI command generation (super useful). Agentic coding follows naturally from that.

The pivot is likely because there's more VC dollars there.

It is a handy AI-cli for any terminal. I've been using the "terminal" app for a few months and found it was a very competent coding tool. I kept giving feedback to the team that they should "beef up" the coding side because until Claude Code this was my daily driver for writing code until Opus 4. The interface still is a bit janky because i think it's trying to predict whether you're typing a console command or talking to it for new prompt (it tries to dynamical assess that but often enough it crosses the streams). Regardless, I highly recommend checking it out, I've had some great success with it.

no idea how the product itself works but they have set a new standard for small startup launch videos with this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jKOVAa1KAo

Pro Tip: Ask the agent or another LLM to generate a prompt for an agent of what you want to build, then tweak it as needed, and then use that prompt. I've had decent success prompting Junie (JetBrains AI) a few times because of this.

If warp had just stuck to being a decent terminal emulator with great UI, I would be using it without question. This AI nonsense is why I don't even consider them an option.

The slick AI integration is exactly why I use it over the other thousand terminal emulators.

Claude Code can replicate some of the behavior, but it’s too slow to switch in and out of command / agent flows.

Claude Code and Codex provide something like $5000 of tokens for $200. How will any other offering depending on their models ever compete with that except by luring suckers or tire kickers?

Assuming that's a temporary situation, they can paper it over with VC funding.

Why do you think it’s temporary?

Warp started well and now lost their way. Fuck them. Ghostty all the way.

optimizing for the shortest path from idea to prod sounds a tad warped, if i may

> Initialize projects with their own WARP.md files (compatible with Agents.MD, Claude.MD and cursor rules).

Can we please standardize this and just have one markdown file that all the agents can use?

The standardization is AGENTS.md, mentioned in the compatibility. See https://agents.md/

Edit: never mind / can’t delete because HN

I think this is a different Warp…