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 reshaping software engineering so that productive engineers may write little or no code, especially since model improvements late last year (e.g., Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3).

Lloyd describes today’s workflow as planning with local agents, running multiple agents in parallel, and supervising their output because agents still make mistakes, lose context, and require human code review, especially on large codebases like Warp’s Rust repo.

He predicts a strong shift from laptop-based agents to cloud-orchestrated, auditable, secure company workflows via Warp’s Oz, enabling triggers, shared artifacts, and team visibility.

They discuss UI trends toward an agent “control plane,” voice prompting, mobile/remote session control, skills as on-demand context, multi-agent coordination challenges, competition dynamics, and broader knowledge-work automation replacing many SaaS tasks.

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Key Moments:

1. 03:48 Parallel Agent Workflow
2. 06:38 Cloud Agents and Oz
3. 09:35 Abstraction and Code Review
4. 11:03 Future UX Control Planes
5. 14:59 Voice and Mobile Control
6. 16:24 Competing in Coding Tools
7. 21:16 Todo App Demo in Warp
8. 23:53 Replacing SaaS With Agents
9. 25:06 Agents Over Apps
10. 25:47 Context Can Backfire
11. 29:02 Skills On Demand
12. 31:13 Oz Skills In Action
13. 33:39 Cloud Agents Control Plane
14. 37:40 Multi Agent Orchestration
15. 42:10 Automate The Repetitive
16. 44:41 Advice For Skeptical Devs

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Key Links:

1. Warp
2. Connect with Zach on LinkedIn