AI Engineer · September 27, 2026

Orchestras, Not Factories: How the Fastest Builders Work — Charlie Holtz, Conductor

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Why it matters

Charlie Holtz describes Conductor’s approach to coordinating coding agents through shared cloud workspaces and organizational context. His examples include CI-enforced human review for migrations, carefully maintained agent instructions, and a database of working information queried by agents. The presentation combines workflow advice with product demonstrations; it does not measure a general productivity advantage.

My takeaway: Identify changes that require human review, maintain the instructions agents repeatedly read, and give shared workspaces explicit access boundaries. Measure completed work before investing heavily in custom orchestration.

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