Zach Lloyd is the CEO of Warp. He discusses developer demand for headless terminal agents in continuous integration environments.
Opinion
Zach Lloyd: Warp's coding agent outperforms both Cursor and Windsurf
“Warp can code, and Warp code is at a level that's, like, comparable to cloud code. I think it's actually better than, like, Cursor's agent. It's probably better than Windsurf since they aren't, they don't have Sonnet for.”
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Zach Lloyd: Warp's coding agent will likely top the TBench benchmark
“Basically, state of the art on SweetBench, I think we will, again, I don't want to be quoted here, we can maybe edit this later, but like, we'll probably be number one or close to it on TBench also, which is the terminal benchmark, which really we should be th…”
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Zach Lloyd: Multi-threaded AI agents will not scale on local machines
“But if our thesis is that multi-threading is going to become really important, It's going to not be doable on a single machine. Like if you didn't like our memory usage before, you're not going to like it when we're running, you know, 10 10 agents. It's just n…”
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Zach Lloyd: Cursor represents a very significant portion of Anthropic's revenue
“Cursor I think is some very significant portion of their revenue.”
Disclosure
Zach Lloyd: Anthropic, not OpenAI, is Warp's primary model of choice
“ChatDBT isn't even the model of choice at this point. It's anthropic for us.”
Opinion
Lloyd: The best agent interface is similar to traditional terminal UX
“Our thesis here is that the best interface for launching agents is actually pretty similar to what traditionally has been like a terminal UX. You know, you want this like grouped output. You want the ability to seamlessly run commands.”