Warp's CEO on What It Actually Looks Like to Build with Agents in 2026

Matt Paige interviews Zach Lloyd, former Google principal engineer and now founder/CEO of Warp, about how agentic tools are changing software engineering so much that writing code may be optional as long as developers can guide agents. Lloyd describes the shift from autocomplete to prompt-driven changes and then to agents capable of doing most coding work, alongside new workflows where engineers plan with agents, run multiple agents in parallel, and manage issues like mistakes, context loss, and laptop resource limits. He predicts agentic development will increasingly move from local machines to cloud environments for scalability, security, auditability, organizational knowledge capture, and event-triggered automation, highlighting Warp’s Oz as a cloud control plane for tracking agents, artifacts, and skills. They discuss interfaces, voice prompting, multi-agent coordination challenges, automating repetitive knowledge work, and Warp’s competition and positioning.