Warp Just Went Open Source: What Indie Hackers Actually Need to Know (opens in new tab)

Originally published at devtoolpicks.com A week ago, on May 7, Warp made its client codebase open source under AGPL-3.0, with OpenAI as the founding sponsor of the repository. The GitHub repo hit 56,000 stars and 4,100 forks within days. It climbed to number two on GitHub trending. Hacker News had a heated debate about whether this is real open source or sophisticated automation theater. I've been using Warp on and off since 2024. It's a genuinely interesting product. But the open source anno...