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by ahmadyan 57 days ago
Congrats on open-sourcing warp.

May i ask what was the decision process behind this? What was the benefit of open-sourcing warp, as it is already a mature and established product. Also did devin cli had any impact on the decision to open-source warp?

Also how does a repo gets 29k starts in matter of 2 hours?
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tnkuehne 57 days ago
> Also how does a repo gets 29k starts in matter of 2 hours?

They used the repo for issue tracking since the beginning but before today the repo did not include source code of the client.

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ahmadyan 57 days ago
this make sense, thanks
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brunoborges 57 days ago
Makes sense but doesn't explain why open sourcing it, therefore doesn't directly answer the question.
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ahmadyan 57 days ago
look at zach's reply below.
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AirMax98 57 days ago
> OpenAI is the founding sponsor of the new, open-source Warp repository.

Big bucks from OpenAI is my guess. I could guess the strategy is to try to take a shotgun approach at Claude Code.

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pzo 57 days ago
Wondering if additionally OpenAI afraid of Cursor being bought by xAI
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zachlloyd 57 days ago
Warp founder here. Great question.

I outline the thought process in detail in our blog (https://www.warp.dev/blog/warp-is-now-open-source)

But the tl;dr is that I actually think we can build a better product, more quickly if we build it with our community + agents. I also think it's a unique product that I hope developers get a bunch of value from being able to customize and help improve. Our business is now mostly around agents and orchestration through Oz (https://oz.dev), so opening up the client and terminal felt natural.

The big thing for the "why now" though was the agent management piece.

Wrt the github stars, we had an issues-only repo prior and already had a significant number of stars before OSS today.

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ahmadyan 57 days ago
make sense, thank you for your response.
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Muhammad523 57 days ago
They made a blog post about it [0]. I haven't read it yet, but it might answer your question.

[0]: https://www.warp.dev/blog/warp-is-now-open-source

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dgellow 57 days ago
> Also how does a repo gets 29k starts in matter of 2 hours?

You gave the answer: by being a mature, established product

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