How I built Termina using Claude Opus 4.1 and Warpdotdev

In past I posted about Termina project which I was doing with the Cursor. I am still trying to get the project functional. Then I moved to the Windsurf for making this project in the right order. Both are kind of slow in getting the functional prototype. I found the Auto mode of the Cursor making things slow and buggy with OpenAI's GPT-5.

So my approach was using the Gemini API which was free per day free -tier. And turns out this was a good move for the design. But the interesting issue was with the getting the features functional. And this means making changes to the PRD and getting simple design and the PRD to use in the prompt.

This is where the Terminal based Model usage came into the play. I noticed that Claude Code is there but I am in the mood for paying on the top of existing subscriptions. I decided to download the Warpdotdev.

And then I managed to use the free tier of the terminal. And decided to add some PRD and the prompt process. This led to the decent amount of queries being run.

Imagine just 120 queries for initial prototype.

And this is the result.

As you can see the linux usage is turned off because I have yet to enable the Alpine linux. And also I have managed to test out the keyboard. So this looks like a good prototype. And it has enough settings and the SSH support for making use like Putty on the Windows.

https://x.com/devnamipress/status/1957778056598417505

And now that I have seen the success with the same. I managed to have found out that I have to make use of the warpdotdev. As the model used over there was decent and also the decent approach to make use of the steps in the process made this pretty fun to try out too.

So in the grand schemes, Claude wins for the Code. And OpenAI and Deepseek are just chatty and not something I would recommend for the serious projects. Use them for the documentation and PRD if you want to.