zachlloyd

yes, we are directly reaching out to folks who we identify as impacted.

We have a way of turning off all the AI if you don't like it (Settings > AI > turn it off). I get the desire here.

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)

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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