Warp’s big bet on building open source with GPT-5.5
OpenAI Blog · 2026-05-27
Warp open-sourced its terminal client and launched Open Agentic Development using GPT-5.5, with agents now co-creating 90% of internal pull requests while the company reports 35x ARR growth.
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Topics: agentic-developmentopen-sourceai-coding-agentsgpt-5developer-tools
Claims
- GPT-5.5 uses 30% fewer tokens per agentic coding task than GPT-5.4, improving efficiency for long-running agent workflows.
- Agents now co-create approximately 90% of Warp's internal pull requests.
- Warp's ARR grew 35x last year, with enterprise revenue up more than 500% since Q4 2025.
- Warp's Oz platform provides a control plane for deploying and coordinating persistent agents across local and cloud environments with context compaction and persistent memory.
- Open Agentic Development repositions human developers as supervisors specifying intent and verifying outputs, while agents handle planning, implementation, and pull-request creation.
Key quotes
We think we can ship a better Warp, more quickly, by working with our community to supervise a fleet of agents. OpenAI models help make that sustainable for the long-horizon coding work these systems require.
We've found that OpenAI models regularly provide frontier-level intelligence while taking fewer tokens and turns to complete the same tasks. The models are especially strong for coding tasks that require reasoning across large problem spaces.
No one knows exactly what the future of agentic development will look like. We think the community ought to be able to participate in shaping it.