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by closeparen 300 days ago
Isn't the express purpose of Warp to be an AI-centric terminal? What's the use case for doing stuff in Warp that you don't want sent to an LLM vs. using a regular terminal?
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I am normally pretty quick to jump on how bad for privacy shoving some random LLM tool into a product is and the serious security risks especially in the terminal...

But looking at the marketing for Warp, this thing screams LLM everything. Nothing about this hints that things are processed locally. I can't imagine using a tool like this and not thinking that everything I type into it (and give it access too) is getting routed to a server somewhere.

What am I missing here about being upset that... it seems to be doing its job?

Unless I am missing that it is installing something so this happens in your normal terminal or something like that... to be blunt if you used this tool and this is what breaks your trust... how did you think it worked in the first place?

I started to use it right when it was released, long time before any LLM integration.

But fair point anyways.

IIRC it wasn't always this way - but it did ask for a login which I felt was a non-starter.
Yes, and even going back over 2 years ago in Wayback Machine has Warp advertising AI autocorrect as one of its biggest features.