I was a bit skeptical when Warp started adding AI features to their terminal app. I’ve really enjoyed watching Zach Lloyd and team work on their take on a modern terminal over the last few years, but using AI to turn "find files with X" into grep commands felt pretty underwhelming. Luckily, that was just a stepping stone and Warp has now evolved into what they’re calling an agentic development environment.

Now with the release of Warp 2.0, it’s clear that they’re chasing the same general idea that Claude Code is, but they’re building the functionality into the UI of the terminal itself:

Because Warp is the platform and not a CLI-app running within the terminal, Warp has much richer UX capabilities than any CLI agent possibly can. For instance, unlike in CLI coding agents you can edit diffs directly in Warp’s native code editor; no context switching to an IDE required.

Furthermore, they’re taking advantage of the fact that they can use different models from different providers to do things like use OpenAI‘s o3 model for planning, and Claude 4 Sonnet for code generation. It’s an interesting take, and one I’m looking forward to checking out and seeing how it fits into this broader trend of rethinking our development environments.