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 Subscribe and stay in touch Website: https://whiskey.fm Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/id1552776603 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/19jiuHAqzeKnkleQUpZxDf Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1552776603 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiskeyWebAndWhatnot Whiskey Web and Whatnot Merch Enjoying the podcast and want us to make more? Help support us by picking up some of our fresh merch at https://whiskey.fund.