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Charlieholtztoday at 6:10 PM1 replyview on HN

I'm biased (I'm the creator) but I use Conductor every day. I've recently switched to Opus 4.8 (fast mode always on) as my default model but swap in GPT-5.5 quite a bit for reviewing Opus's work.

My flow is something like: - Create a new workspace for a specific bug/feature - Ramble into the input box. I use a goose neck microphone and Spokenly (with Parakeet as the model ) for local speech-to-text - Hit enter! I don't use plan mode. - Ask for a review from a different model (⌘⇧R) - Create a PR and run a /babysit loop - Run a local version of the app and click around, do a human review. If the LOC are negative we don't pay much attention to the code. If it's positive we do - Merge!

I often have 3-5 workspaces running like this. There's lots of room for improvement but it's been working quite well for me.


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phildenhofftoday at 9:49 PM

Hey -- we've loved using Conductor here at Digits. I've been using it since February and only recently swapped to using Orca for Remote SSH and perf improvements. Looking forward to your general release of Conductor Cloud!

I've been wondering, since you're building desktop software, how do you get AI to test your changes? Boot the whole app? Run the frontend/UI with a mock backend?