Warp.dev Terminal – Overpriced, Buggy, and AI-Sabotaged My Code

Everything reinforces my choice of Aider+Openrouter+code. I use models 20x cheaper than Sonnet, completely pay as you go, nobody is playing games with models, their LLM bills and my context to turn a profit. I generate Python scripts with Mongo and Cloudwatch queries instead of getting angry at the mystical sparkly button UX on their apps.

Retsoat · 20 days ago

warp is definitely pricey, but it's the best way to get SOTA models like o3 and opus 4.1 to work properly in your terminal, in my opinion.

you're paying for Warp's integration, which for most people is better than what DIY can accomplish.

atmosx · a month ago

I would really like to learn more about your setup. Can you share details?

aitchnyu · a month ago

I paid for 5$ of credits from OpenRouter and looked up their hosted models. I installed Aider and run it in watch mode in my project. I then create comments with instructions at various files (like #refer this ai) and add ! to last command to execute it. I have disabled autocommit but I commit frequently manually to recover when it acts dumb and overwrites stuff.

https://aider.chat/docs/usage/watch.html I'm trying https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507

"AI started actively breaking working code" is vibe coding talk, you should monitor what it does and undo at the step that breaks. I've been able to do that just by prompting "undo last step/<specific action>"

I used it before as a free Claude Code to do ad-hoc scripting, pretty useful. Now I have found a bunch of TUI programs (Amazon Q, rovo dev, opencode) that can assist with that kind of workflow. I don't like that it's a GUI app, but I like the fact that it's a terminal app where I can type command directly into, not just prompt. Claude 4 should be fine, was on free, never hit limit so not sure what's the lite experience is.

iudqnolq · a month ago

I've found Claude to be terrible at undoing.

It feels analogous to what would happen if you put me in front of a broken project without source control that I've never seen before and asked me to fix it without giving me enough time to actually understand it. It starts from errors and bugs, guesses corresponding source code, and tries to narrowly fix just that snippet. Generally it favors deleting, but not specifically deleting new code.

I would have thought it could record a log of its actions and use that log to think about undoing. I would also think it could annotate lines with git blame so it knows undoing wouldn't involve changing anything more than say a day old. Unfortunately that isn't consistent with what I've seen.

I just make a WIP git commit and run git commit -A --amend --no-edit after manually reviewing each unit of work.

Edit: I also wish Claude implemented undo at a higher level instead of relying on the model. Some combination of snapshotting the whole repo and tracking operations that have precise inverses. But I understand that would have drawbacks.

nsonha · a month ago

maybe a system prompt to tell it to do checkpoints. Stash is one way, another is jujutsu with git backend. If this was Claude Code then hooks would be the perfect place to put that logic.

Retsoat · 20 days ago

these are good tips. for me, warp definitely suffers from some of these issues, but it suffers WAY less than competitors like claude code.

beng-nl · a month ago

I agree - people saying that kind of stuff I just can’t take seriously. Programmers know to use revision control systems, practically from the start of their being programmers. For the same reason: because you can break your own code. Not using a vcs when letting ai make changes just doesn’t make sense at all. And them complaining ai broke their code means they broke their code.

Ken_At_EM · a month ago

I installed this, lasted about 90 seconds on my machine before I went back to iTerm.

Larrikin · a month ago

Nearly everything about the experience of a terminal is better than iTerm though? I turned off all of the AI stuff since I can just use Claude directly for one off things. But it's very nice having the terminal treated like a text file instead of terminals pretending the mouse doesn't exist and there have been no advancements in text editing GUI in decades. It has issues with ssh ing into one machine but I just use command ssh for that single machine.

jkderry · a month ago

That’s literally how I use it too. I like file like editing in the terminal and that’s all. Maybe there’s something I can download for iTerm instead though.

stuaxo · a month ago

I find it mad people use this stuff outside of a vm or virtualisation.

CafeRacer · a month ago

Yes, and I find it mad when this stuff is used without source control.

Claude code, for example, sometimes is incredibly useful in generating repeatable patterns, and sometimes it just walks in circles. But at least I always understand what's it's doing, can revert and tell it to do differently.

radkiddo · a month ago

Yep. Exactly as described, pure hype.

crypto_is_king · a month ago

I actually had good results with the free plan but with strong edit limitations (which I explicitly prompt for). Its the same underlying models as cursor (claude 4 is by far the best) and I find it a little easier to use because it takes up the full screen and is less eager than cursor somehow.

exactly right

0xfedcafe · a month ago

I switched from Warp to Ghostty and was never happier in my life.

deverman · a month ago

Yeah pretty happy with Ghostty and might even switch back to Terminal in MacOS Tahoe since they finally updated it.

gaws · a month ago

Use wezterm[1].

[1]: https://wezterm.org/