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During the initial development of Conductor, Charlie Holtz spent $22,000 on tokens in a single month.
Charlie Holtz believes that code is becoming a byproduct, or "sawdust," of the software development process, with the primary work shifting to writing effective prompts.
Charlie Holtz predicts that as AI models improve, developers will be able to regenerate entire codebases by re-running prompts, making the original code disposable.
Charlie Holtz predicts that AI agents will soon be 10 times smarter, run for 10 times longer, and require cloud environments that are not constrained by a local Mac's CPU.
Conductor is a Mac application designed to orchestrate multiple coding agents.
Conductor was a member of the Y Combinator Summer 2024 batch.
The development team at Conductor uses its own product to build and maintain the Conductor application.
Charlie Holtz predicts that software will become more "malleable," allowing users to modify applications like Conductor in a way similar to how video games are modded.
Charlie Holtz's product vision for Conductor is for the user to feel like the CEO of a small company, managing their AI agents and reviewing their work.
The default way to run Claude within the Conductor application is to "dangerously accept all permissions."
The Conductor team maintains "slot-free zones," which are parts of their codebase and documentation that are intentionally human-written and reviewed to maintain quality.
Charlie Holtz believes that AI models can enter a negative feedback loop where they see bad code and consequently write more bad code.