--- title: "Warp – The intelligent terminal" description: "Warp is helping me run my homelab. It has been a big help for me as although I utilise a lot of Linux-based tools at home, I am mostly self-taught and" date: 2025-04-11T15:46:23+00:00 modified: 2026-06-01T21:07:06+00:00 author: James Kilby categories: - Artificial Intelligence - Homelab - Storage - TrueNAS Scale - VMware - vSphere - Runecast - vSAN tags: - #Artificial Intelligence - #Homelab - #Warp url: https://jameskilby.co.uk/2025/04/warp-the-intelligent-terminal/ image: https://jameskilby.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/210902461-012e7273-413a-4ec7-be44-e854347f5a21-1024x240.png --- ![Wa](https://jameskilby.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/210902461-012e7273-413a-4ec7-be44-e854347f5a21.png) [Artificial Intelligence](https://jameskilby.co.uk/category/artificial-intelligence/) | [Homelab](https://jameskilby.co.uk/category/homelab/) # Warp – The intelligent terminal By[James](https://jameskilby.co.uk)April 11, 2025 · Updated June 1, 2026 • 📖4 min read(722 words) 📅 **Published:** April 11, 2025• **Updated:** June 01, 2026 [Warp](http://warp.dev) is helping me run my homelab. It has been a big help for me as although I utilise a lot of Linux-based tools at home, I am mostly self-taught and therefore don’t always use best practices. I also know I take some shortcuts that are an acceptable risk to me but I strive to do better. Sometimes you just need a helping hand Enter Warp… ## Table of Contents ## What is Warp? Taken from Warp’s website: Become a command line power user on day one. Warp combines AI and your dev team’s knowledge in one fast, intuitive terminal. At the moment I am just using the free model which has some limits. A number of paid options are available and I am definitely considering them. ## An example of Warp helping me out I was running “sudo apt-get update” on one of my servers. This is a server that’s been around the block a bit and runs quite a lot of things and MAY have had some experimentation done in the past :p sudo apt-get update [sudo] password for username: Get:1 file:/var/nvidia-driver-local-repo-ubuntu2404-565.57.01 InRelease [1,572 B] Get:1 file:/var/nvidia-driver-local-repo-ubuntu2404-565.57.01 InRelease [1,572 B] Hit:2 https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/stable/deb/amd64 InRelease Hit:3 https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com noble InRelease Hit:4 https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu noble InRelease Hit:5 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble InRelease Get:6 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates InRelease [126 kB] Hit:7 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports InRelease Hit:8 https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt coral-edgetpu-stable InRelease Hit:9 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InRelease Fetched 126 kB in 10s (12.0 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done W: Target Packages (stable/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backdownload_docker_com_linux_ubuntu.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list:1 W: Target Packages (stable/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backdownload_docker_com_linux_ubuntu.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list:1 W: Target Translations (stable/i18n/Translation-en_GB) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backdownload_docker_com_linux_ubuntu.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list:1 W: Target Translations (stable/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backdownload_docker_com_linux_ubuntu.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list:1 W: Target DEP-11 (stable/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backdownload_docker_com_linux_ubuntu.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list:1 W: Target DEP-11 (stable/dep11/Components-all.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backdownload_docker_com_linux_ubuntu.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list:1 W: Target CNF (stable/cnf/Commands-amd64) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backdownload_docker_com_linux_ubuntu.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list:1 W: Target CNF (stable/cnf/Commands-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backdownload_docker_com_linux_ubuntu.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list:1 W: https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/dists/coral-edgetpu-stable/InRelease: Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), see the DEPRECATION section in apt-key(8) for details. W: Target Packages (stable/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backdownload_docker_com_linux_ubuntu.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list:1 W: Target Packages (stable/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backdownload_docker_com_linux_ubuntu.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list:1 W: Target Translations (stable/i18n/Translation-en_GB) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backdownload_docker_com_linux_ubuntu.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list:1 W: Target Translations (stable/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backdownload_docker_com_linux_ubuntu.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list:1 W: Target DEP-11 (stable/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backdownload_docker_com_linux_ubuntu.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list:1 W: Target DEP-11 (stable/dep11/Components-all.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backdownload_docker_com_linux_ubuntu.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list:1 W: Target CNF (stable/cnf/Commands-amd64) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backdownload_docker_com_linux_ubuntu.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list:1 W: Target CNF (stable/cnf/Commands-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backdownload_docker_com_linux_ubuntu.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list:1 📋 Copy As you can see the command itself returned some errors about things being configured multiple times. However as the command (and actual updates) have run successfully in the past I haven’t really dug into it. Where the beauty of Warp kicked in and said ![Screenshot 2025 04 11 at 14.12.14 1024x95](https://jameskilby.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-11-at-14.12.14-1024x95.png) It then auto-executed a cat command to look at the contents of both files and gave me advice based on what it found ![Screenshot 2025 04 11 at 14.19.09](https://jameskilby.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-11-at-14.19.09-1024x137.png) It then showed me the below sudo command it wanted to run and asked if it was OK to run it, which I approved sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backdownload_docker_com_linux_ubuntu.list && sudo apt-get update 📋 Copy Once apt-get had been upgraded, the duplicates were no longer in place and a few updates were available. These were installed and then Warp gave me an excellent summary of what changed: The upgrade has been completed successfully. Three packages were upgraded: 1. pci.ids 2. python3-software-properties 3. software-properties-common According to the system check: * The running kernel is up-to-date * No services need to be restarted * No containers need to be restarted * No user sessions are running outdated binaries * No VM guests are running outdated hypervisor binaries Your system is now up to date with all the latest package versions. ## Conclusion Although the example above is fairly straightforward and I could have resolved it myself, using Warp it was fixed MUCH MUCH faster. I am using it for more and more complex things. Some of these may take a lot of research or are just plain time consuming. Either way I’m finding Warp a great help at making these things faster and more reliable. If you like this and want to give Warp a go, sign up with my referral link [here](https://app.warp.dev/referral/48XR9W) ## 📚 Related Posts * [Self Hosting AI Stack using vSphere, Docker and NVIDIA GPU](https://jameskilby.co.uk/2024/10/self-hosting-ai-stack-using-vsphere-docker-and-nvidia-gpu/) * [My Self-Hosted AI Stack: Infrastructure Deep Dive (Part 2)](https://jameskilby.co.uk/2026/04/my-self-hosted-ai-stack-infrastructure-deep-dive-part-2/) * [My Self-Hosted AI Stack: Architecture Overview (Part 1)](https://jameskilby.co.uk/2026/03/my-self-hosted-ai-stack-a-technical-deep-dive/) ## Similar Posts * [![Lab Update – Part 2 Storage Truenas Scale](https://jameskilby.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/maxresdefault-768x432.jpeg)](https://jameskilby.co.uk/2022/01/lab-update-part-2-storage/) [Homelab](https://jameskilby.co.uk/category/homelab/) | [Storage](https://jameskilby.co.uk/category/storage/) ### [Lab Update – Part 2 Storage Truenas Scale](https://jameskilby.co.uk/2022/01/lab-update-part-2-storage/) By[James](https://jameskilby.co.uk)January 11, 2022 · Updated June 1, 2026 The HP Z840 has changed its role to a permanent storage box running Truenas Scale. * [![Can you really squeeze 96TB in 1U ?](https://jameskilby.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/QuantaGrid-SD1Q-1ULH-Front-Three-Quarter.png)](https://jameskilby.co.uk/2024/09/can-you-really-squeeze-96tb-in-1u/) [Homelab](https://jameskilby.co.uk/category/homelab/) | [Storage](https://jameskilby.co.uk/category/storage/) | [TrueNAS Scale](https://jameskilby.co.uk/category/truenas-scale/) ### [Can you really squeeze 96TB in 1U ?](https://jameskilby.co.uk/2024/09/can-you-really-squeeze-96tb-in-1u/) By[James](https://jameskilby.co.uk)September 12, 2024 · Updated June 1, 2026 Yes, that’s a clickbait title. 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