I'm in the awkward position of wanting to congratulate you and scold you at the same time. Wish you'd been bought by Anthropic or something instead. Anyhow- congrats on getting scooped up.

What value could they possibly provide Anthropic? This is by far the best-case scenario for the team

A great, stable product - that doesn't try to be absolutely everything - but does a few things really well, and looks great while doing it?

That's not Anthropic.

Conductor is really no different from Claude Code Desktop now, aside from multiple harness and models

To my understanding Muse has finally caught up to Anthropic, OAI and others atleast on coding and other benchmarks. This move makes the most sense to now quickly try to capture the market.

> The whole team is around to help answer any questions

Why did you sell out?

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Realistically for them, coding harnesses are an extremely competitive landscape, and they have to live in constant fear that Anthropic/OpenAI etc will rugpull them and force these harnesses to go through API billing (effectively killing it as an option for I would guess the majority of their users). That nearly happened earlier this year when Anthropic intimated they were going to do this.

The other reality is, there are now good free alternatives to Conductor (I haven't tried them so we will see) - it does suck if you feel very tied to your existing workflow, but I also think about it from the level of 'these people gave me something for free that helped me a lot, and I want things to work out well for them'.

Are you asking people why they like money? like, a lot of money?

Why do you think they sell out? What is it about the deal that you aren’t happy about?

Users chose them knowing full well the risks.

Build a product with paid customers, then you can choose not to sell out.

Users did not know full well the risks. You never do.

And thanks for the projection. I have a product with paid customers and I refuse to sell out. The project sinks with me.

why sellout your company and your customers and community?

(As someone who isn't particularly happy about this news)

> why sellout your company and your customers and community?

Why not? Do you think this is a heart project, that the founders have a personal passion for agent orchestration somehow? They're not curing cancer or supporting orphans, most companies are created to make money, that's how our economic system works (for better or worse, but I'm not going to blame individuals or be surprised about it).

"community"... Come on. There's customers, there's no community here.

For money.

Like Brian Acton did with the victims he allured to his platform back in the days. Sold them for 20 billion meta coins

that's the whole point of founding a VC backed company

Flames to dust, lovers to friends, why do all good things come to an end?

Thank you, and other sellouts, for reinforcing my view to build my own development and deployment stack and not rely on some third party that does a rug pull

Personal attacks aren't allowed here, regardless of who you're attacking.

Just wanted to congratulate you guys. Like many of us here, I had a mixed reaction of happy for your team, but also sad for Conductor. I tried a bunch of different approaches for coding agents, once I started using Conductor I was like "oh I guess I'm done looking for a harness" - a beautiful clean UI, great UX and just an overall smooth experience with all the features you could need.

Hopefully Meta does something good with your team's talent and technology, but regardless, it was a huge productivity boost for me and I really appreciate that. Good luck to you and your team at Meta!

"... many lifetimes ago in 2025"

This made me laugh. The world is different now. Congrats!

Are you going to retire now and start a band ?

Congratulations, getting an exit in a bit over a year is very very good

You lads... I remember when we had to paste the code from the chat window into VSCode.

Remember when 200k was a HUGE context window, but you still had to be precious about how many files you'd paste into it?

I remember when most of my work came down to how to deal with the 512 token window of BERT.

Remember using the models pre-thinking? I had to build thinking into ChatGPT requests manually.

(I wonder if they stole that idea from my logs…)

Congrats Charlie!

Best shipping speed I've experienced for a product like this. Great run!

Consider Open Sourcing the core/app

im so curious what specifically makes this possible. I have no experience with conductor but your comment reminds me of how impressed I was with the development speed of parse.com. I'm likely dating myself; it was the first serverless/firebase backend concept that supported mobile app development. I wasn't even a user I just noted how prolific the feature rollouts were. So polished too. They got acqui-hired by Meta and I'm sure the founders did well.

Anyway, for anyone reading, just a not developer-led products. How do they do it?!

Not a user but congrats and I hope you make fat stacks.

I loved the autographs at the bottom. It gives a nice feeling. Way to go!

Congrats! This is only the beginning of your journey!

congrats to the team!