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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

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?

AirMax98 6mo 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.
- pzo 6mo ago
  Wondering if additionally OpenAI afraid of Cursor being bought by xAI
- throwaway613746 6mo ago
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dgellow 6mo ago
> Also how does a repo gets 29k starts in matter of 2 hours? You gave the answer: by being a mature, established product
tnkuehne 6mo 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.
- ahmadyan 6mo ago
  this make sense, thanks
  - brunoborges 6mo ago
    Makes sense but doesn't explain why open sourcing it, therefore doesn't directly answer the question.
    - ahmadyan 6mo ago
      look at zach's reply below.
zachlloyd 6mo 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 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 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.
- ahmadyan 6mo ago
  make sense, thank you for your response.
Muhammad523 6mo 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 https://www.warp.dev/blog/warp-is-now-open-source

AirMax98 6mo 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.

pzo 6mo ago
Wondering if additionally OpenAI afraid of Cursor being bought by xAI
throwaway613746 6mo ago
[dead]

dgellow 6mo ago

> Also how does a repo gets 29k starts in matter of 2 hours? You gave the answer: by being a mature, established product

tnkuehne 6mo 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.

ahmadyan 6mo ago
this make sense, thanks
- brunoborges 6mo ago
  Makes sense but doesn't explain why open sourcing it, therefore doesn't directly answer the question.
  - ahmadyan 6mo ago
    look at zach's reply below.

zachlloyd 6mo 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 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 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.

ahmadyan 6mo ago
make sense, thank you for your response.

Muhammad523 6mo 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 https://www.warp.dev/blog/warp-is-now-open-source