Our Favourite Terminal Just Became Open Source!

Warp, my favorite terminal, and it's slowly becoming your favorite terminal, too. Our favorite terminal. Our favorite terminal has become open source, which is really exciting. But, what does it mean? It It means quite a few interesting things, actually, that's come out of it. Command AI. It's an AI terminal, actually, for those who don't know. And it's quite good cuz it, you know, you can type in agentic commands, and it will interpret that and run the terminal commands that relate to what you're doing. So, you normally have to access servers via the terminal. You run curl code with the terminal. You do lots of things running terminal, and it's all this bash syntax that's often very hard to remember. Now, if you don't know what open source is, it means that we literally have access to the code that they have access to. [music] Which you can download this, and you can run it on your computer, and you will have the app. Um you know, you'll have it just like they do. You have to build it and whatever. Means a couple of things. It means you can build your own features. And the first one I had was how can I download Warp and just just have it use curl code? So, you know, the beautiful thing about Warp is that it can use a bunch of different agents and things like that. Um stop paying for Warp, pipe it into curl code, and then just use curl my curl code membership to be able to use it. That's one aspect of it. This is the code on GitHub. Ah. So, you can just run You can just run this. Yeah. Download it, run it. It got And And also, the second thing is is that you can contribute. So, you can actually build features into these things. I do worry that this opens up a can of worms because, um ever since AI, you know, came came became big, people are like contributing like crazy to open source projects, just uh submitting AI stuff. down. Well, yeah, I mean, there's that, as well. That's another aspect to it, as well. But there was another aspect to this that was quite interesting, which is OpenAI is the founding sponsor of the new open source repository, and the new agentic management workflows are powered by GPT models. I don't know what this is. I think this is part probably something like um uh maybe some actions here. Maybe they've got some GitHub actions, like all of these stuff, you know, the cleanups, create releases, all of that stuff. Uh to protect you protect them from receiving your AI slop. They've got a bunch of agents protecting it, you know. So, I think it's that. But [snorts] um yeah, it's quite interesting. It's quite nice that um uh OpenAI are really kind of supporting this uh open open source aspect to it because the world can't go round, you know, the dev world can't go round without open source. But it's just a nice thing, you know? Again, I kind of want to just get it working with raw code and then stop paying my 20 20 bucks a month fee or whatever it is that I'm paying um or soon to be paying anyway. So, that's kind of it. There's nothing much more to say about it. I don't know if you have any thoughts what you might do with an open source thing or whether it tempts you to contribute to open source. Um I just want to show how I'm using it. Vertical tabs and colored by project. I turn that straight off. I turn that straight off. I I start Yeah, I started doing that and I you can toggle them. And I quite like it. I started to because it it makes it easy for me to see, okay, what project this is. Mhm. And then like by color. Well, I like the color by project. That's an interesting one. How do I turn that on? So, you just right click or no, just you do this, yeah. You do this and then you select the Oh, I see. You've colored them. Oh, okay. Yes, yes, yes. I got it. Oh, that's nice. Oh, it's not automatic, yeah. Nice. So, yeah, I just want to show how I'm using it, but how I would change it. I feel like it's a bit too busy here. You see like the name of the project is like remote control like written put this like information here. I don't need any of this. And as far uh the directory, I already have it here. So, why do I need it here? It's a bunch of like UI changes. That's my biggest issue with Warp. It's that the UI is busy. You know, if you go to just the the main terminal, it's just so clean. I know what you mean. Even to the point of that there's a code review button at the top right. And this was added simply because people weren't using it. People didn't know that there was a code review button. And it's like that's kind of like a bit annoying cuz that's cluttering the user interface. Why would you need to pay for it? Because I don't if I don't use the agent and just use it as a terminal, can I use it for free? I don't know that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. Yeah. If you never use the agent, yeah, for sure. I I have used the agent and I sometimes do and you do the command shift. Or use use iTerm2. Like I think that's If you just want something as clean as the terminal, but you want something, you know, a bit more advanced. I I do have that. Yeah. Why don't you just use this? I think Warp just has more stuff and I somehow started using Warp. it doesn't have tabs. It doesn't have the Yeah, true. Because I know you you taught me that I can do this and I can do this and I can do this. Oh, I don't like also the select state, but I think I can change that. iTerm is highly customizable. Yeah, probably ask Becky, yeah. How can I change the Oh, just ask Warp to help you customize items, too. That that's mean. That's very mean. And the agents will figure out one day what we're trying to do, and they'll say, "Nope, you're stuck with me." 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