Software Engineering Daily · Thursday, August 6, 2026
Warp has incorporated AI features, initially using OpenAI's Codex API to translate English into terminal commands. With the advent of models like ChatGPT, Warp has further developed its 'agent mode' to allow users to perform tasks described in natural language using terminal commands.
“And what we were using it for was we would translate English into terminal commands. So it was really like translation, not like agentic capability.”
“And so we then changed the interface to be, honestly, something that's very much like Cloud Code or Codex agents work, these coding agents.”
“And it would basically do whatever you asked it to do but do with terminal commands.”