Pay No Attention to the LLM Behind the Terminal w/ Zach Lloyd

This week, Robbie and Adam sip Lagavulin 16 and catch up with Zach Lloyd—founder and CEO of Warp—about building the modern terminal, shipping AI agents to the cloud, and why editing text like it's 2026 should be the bare minimum. They dig into why Warp feels like the only terminal that just works, how AI is changing the way senior engineers code, the rise of agentic orchestration, and why tmux users are the hardest to convert. Along the way, they cover computer use models, agent memory, multi-threaded prompting, and why your laptop is officially not ready for this.

In this episode:

Chapters

00:00:00 Welcome & Introductions
00:03:20 Whiskey Tasting: Lagavulin 16
00:07:07 What is Warp?
00:09:30 Warp's Standout Features
00:13:48 AI Agents in Development Workflows
00:17:12 The Terminal as the Future of Development
00:21:35 Real-World Agent Usage & Productivity
00:25:17 Multi-Agent Systems & Orchestration
00:43:16 Moving to the Cloud & Warp Oz
00:54:38 The Future of AI Development & Competition

Links

Lagavulin 16: https://www.malts.com/en-row/our-whisky-collection/lagavulin-16-year-old/

Warp: https://www.warp.dev/

Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/

Google Sheets: https://sheets.google.com/

OpenClaw: https://github.com/cncf/openclaw

Claude: https://claude.ai/

Codex: https://openai.com/index/openai-codex/

Railway: https://railway.app/

Ghostty: https://ghostty.org/

Opencode: https://opencode.ai/

Shepherd: https://shepherdjs.dev/

Svelte: https://svelte.dev/

SolidJS: https://www.solidjs.com/

Mermaid: https://mermaid.js.org/

Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/

Astro: https://astro.build/

Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/

Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/

Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/

tmux: https://github.com/tmux/tmux

Zed: https://zed.dev/

Ember Data: https://github.com/emberjs/data

TypeScript: https://www.typescriptlang.org/

GitHub: https://github.com/

Jira: https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira

Python: https://www.python.org/

Mythical Man-Month: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

CascadiaJS: https://cascadiajs.com/

Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/

IBM: https://www.ibm.com/

Connect with Zach

X / Twitter: https://x.com/zachlloydtweets

Warp: https://www.warp.dev/

Connect with the hosts

Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieWagner

Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/ChuckCarpenter

Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink

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