Zach Lloyd: Warp was the first software product to coin agent mode
Zach Lloyd · He quit Google & his 1st startup failed—but his 2nd grows at $1M ARR every 10 days. | Zach Llyod,... · PMF Show · Oct 9, 2025 · at 41:00
Zach Lloyd, founder and CEO of Warp, describes how Warp introduced natural-language workflows into developer terminal software.
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“And so we moved to this model and we called it agent mode, which everyone has copied that name, by the way, if you look it up on chat GPT, we were the first people to call anything agent mode.”
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