Meta buys Conductor, the app for running several AI coding agents at once

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Meta has added another AI coding tool to its collection. The Register reports that Meta has bought Conductor, a start up whose macOS app lets developers run several coding agents at the same time, each working in its own copy of a Git project

Co-founder and chief executive Charlie Holtz announced the deal in a blog post, and the price was not disclosed. A Meta spokesperson said the purchase strengthens its developer AI tools but gave no further details

Existing users will need to plan ahead. Conductor Cloud goes read only on 13 November and shuts down on 20 November, while the app will keep working for the next few months, though it will get no new models or critical fixes from early 2027

The deal fits a busy pattern across the industry. Meta already has its own Muse Code agent, OpenAI is buying Pierre Computer Company and Ona, and Anthropic has bought Stainless, so the big AI labs are all racing to own the tools developers use every day

Running agents in parallel is one of the most interesting ideas in AI coding right now, because it lets one developer supervise several tasks at once. It is a shame for current users that the cloud service is closing so quickly. It does show how valuable small, focused teams have become to the giants

Have you tried running several coding agents at once? And are big companies buying up too many promising AI start ups?

Meta brings Conductor on board its model trainwww.theregister.com

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Running several agents on separate copies of a project is a clever workflow. One can fix a bug while another writes tests. You become more of a reviewer than a coder