This is a bummer.
Warp.dev has been my main tool for building things, including the entire The Daring Creatives site. It made coding feel possible for someone like me. It fit how I work. It felt like the right tool. And now it feels like the tool and the company behind it do not really want users like me anymore.
I found Warp because of Jess on TikTok, who goes by @therubberduckiee. She highlights tools that help people like me build without getting stuck in the old way of doing things. Warp was one of those tools. It felt like a small door into a new kind of workflow where ideas come first and AI helps you turn them into something real.
What I liked about Warp was the feeling that I was having a conversation with my own computer. Using ChatGPT feels like talking to something that lives somewhere else. Warp brought that same intelligence into my system. It could act on things. It could do work directly in the environment where I was building. It felt like the next step in how I use AI.
That is why the recent shift has been frustrating. When a company starts moving away from the people who actually enjoy their product, you feel it. Pricing gets confusing. Plans are removed or changed in ways that do not make sense for individual builders. Features that used to be part of the value disappear. And then someone from their team publicly complains about vibe coders as if people who build with AI are somehow the wrong kind of customer.
I am not angry about that. I am not sure I was even the target. It just lines up with the rest of the decisions long enough that you stop pretending it is random. You can like a product and still be honest about what the decisions say.
Email from warp follows:
This is a reminder that on December 6, 2025, your Team workspace will automatically transition to Warp’s new monthly Business plan as we sunset our legacy plans. There’s no action required on your end.
- $50 base price per user per month
- Auto-reload turned on, at a cap of $310 spend per month
- This cap is based on your previous monthly spend and overages limit
To change your auto-reload settings, visit Settings > Billing
On the new Business plan, you'll receive:
- 1,500 base AI credits each month
- Access to Reload credits, purchased when your credit balance is low
- Bring your own API key (BYOK)
- SOC 2 compliance
- Automatically enforced team-wide Zero Data Retention
- SAML-based SSO
- All the latest agent and planning features
Please make sure your Warp client is updated to the latest version so you can access all new features like BYOK.
We know this transition will be difficult for some teams. Our goal is to make the change as smooth as possible, while moving to a business model that allows Warp to be here for the long term.
Losing Warp does not frustrate me because it broke. It frustrates me because it was working! It was an actual next step in my creative workflow. It was the only tool that made the computer feel like a collaborator instead of a machine waiting for the perfect command. It let me build without being a traditional engineer. It let me move at the pace that AI makes possible.
But I am not the customer they want. They want teams. They want enterprise. They want people who still work the old way. That is their direction and it is valid. It just leaves people like me standing on the outside of it.
So I am switching. Not because Warp is bad. Because it stopped aligning with how I work. Google Ultra and Ghostty make more sense for me now. I get a clean terminal. I get a model that can actually take action. I get predictable billing. And I get to keep building without feeling like I am doing something the product was never meant to support. I'll probably keep paying on the "Build" plan for $20 a month as backup until I learn Gemini CLI better.
What makes this disappointing is how much I genuinely liked using Warp. For a while it felt like the future. It felt like the first tool built for the new kind of builder.
Maybe that group is too small for them. Maybe it was never the plan. But more people are building this way. More people are stepping into hybrid roles where AI takes care of the complex parts and the person focuses on vision and direction. That is not a niche anymore. It is becoming normal.
Warp helped me get here. It helped me build things I did not think I could. It helped me get The Daring Creatives online. I am grateful for that. But the feeling changed and I am moving on.
That is all this is. Not drama. Not outrage. Just paying attention and adjusting to what is true now.