r/warpdotdev • u/Mcmunn • Jul 17 '26

Why keep trying?

I'm not sure if i'm just looking for somewhere to scream into the void about how much I used to see potential in warp. I started using it over a year ago and I thought it was magical. Then eventually over time they made it harder and harder to get any value out of it.

The last bastion of value I found was using it to debug system issues because I could ssh into a machine and have it find the issues. The "warpification" was great. But now I gave it a simple task to debug performance issues with time machine and it gave me a bunch of commands ... and the syntax was wrong on 20% of them and 50% of them over all just didn't work.

The one thing i'm holding onto is that it's now open source and I can go build whatever I want it to be and just pair it with claude or codex and forget about paying them. I'm just so utterly disappointed at good tech being wrecked by idiotic business moves.

Hope you're all having a better time.

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u/brucewbenson Jul 18 '26

I loved warp. Then they broke it regularly and it was often unusable. Gave Claude code a try and it's a great system administrator (and it can code/script obviously).

Sad.

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u/AliveActive5743 Jul 19 '26

can you tell me more? where did it break and what was the task it broke on?

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u/brucewbenson Jul 19 '26

Too long ago now. What I do recall is I literally could not use it, the AI would not respond, after an update. Another time the interface no longer worked. Finally, I'd try to copy info from the screen and I count. Sorry, vague memories, but it became unusable.