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Warp.dev Terminal – Overpriced, Buggy, and AI-Sabotaged My Code

57 points by MistermanX ↗ HN
I used Warp.dev on the Business Plan. Blew through usage limits in 3 days, and suddenly I’m being charged for over-usage. Even after disabling that, their LITE version (supposedly "unlimited tasks") is borderline unusable.

The AI started actively breaking working code after I hit the limit. Repeated errors, no learning, and corrupted scripts. It destroyed bots I had already built.

Anyone else feel this service is more hype than functionality?

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radkiddo
Yep. Exactly as described, pure hype.
Ken_At_EM
I installed this, lasted about 90 seconds on my machine before I went back to iTerm.
egorfine
why... would anyone want... AI in a terminal?
crypto_is_king
I actually had good results with the free plan but with strong edit limitations (which I explicitly prompt for). Its the same underlying models as cursor (claude 4 is by far the best) and I find it a little easier to use because it takes up the full screen and is less eager than cursor somehow.
nsonha
"AI started actively breaking working code" is vibe coding talk, you should monitor what it does and undo at the step that breaks. I've been able to do that just by prompting "undo last step/<specific action>"

I used it before as a free Claude Code to do ad-hoc scripting, pretty useful. Now I have found a bunch of TUI programs (Amazon Q, rovo dev, opencode) that can assist with that kind of workflow. I don't like that it's a GUI app, but I like the fact that it's a terminal app where I can type command directly into, not just prompt. Claude 4 should be fine, was on free, never hit limit so not sure what's the lite experience is.

Retsoat
these are good tips. for me, warp definitely suffers from some of these issues, but it suffers WAY less than competitors like claude code.
aitchnyu
Everything reinforces my choice of Aider+Openrouter+code. I use models 20x cheaper than Sonnet, completely pay as you go, nobody is playing games with models, their LLM bills and my context to turn a profit. I generate Python scripts with Mongo and Cloudwatch queries instead of getting angry at the mystical sparkly button UX on their apps.
Retsoat
warp is definitely pricey, but it's the best way to get SOTA models like o3 and opus 4.1 to work properly in your terminal, in my opinion.

you're paying for Warp's integration, which for most people is better than what DIY can accomplish.

stuaxo
I find it mad people use this stuff outside of a vm or virtualisation.
0xfedcafe
I switched from Warp to Ghostty and was never happier in my life.
deverman
Yeah pretty happy with Ghostty and might even switch back to Terminal in MacOS Tahoe since they finally updated it.