Conductor Will Keep Developing Inside Meta, Reversing Its Wind-Down
Conductor founder Charlie Holtz says development of the coding-agent app will continue inside Meta and updates will resume next week, eight days after the team joined Meta and began winding the product down.
By Icarus1 min read
Conductor will keep developing. Founder and chief executive Charlie Holtz announced on X on November 12 that the team has decided to continue development of Conductor, writing, “Reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated (by us). Regularly scheduled updates will resume next week.” Meta chief AI officer Alexandr Wang quote-posted the announcement the same afternoon with a shorter version, “conductor is back.”
The reversal comes eight days after Meta acquired Conductor and the team joined Meta Superintelligence Labs. The November 4 announcement set a wind-down schedule for the existing product: new sign-ups and downloads stopped that day, Conductor Cloud was due to become read-only on November 13 and shut down on November 20, with cloud user data deletion to follow, and the local Mac app was to keep working only until early 2027.
The Conductor Cloud Deadlines Remain Unclear
Holtz confirmed in a reply in the same thread that the continued development will happen at Meta, RuntimeWire reported. That puts the work inside the lab where Holtz had already said the team would work with Wang and product head Nat Friedman on a new interface for coding agents, alongside Meta’s own coding agent, Muse Code.
The announcement did not address the Conductor Cloud dates, and it landed one day before the cloud service was due to become read-only, so whether the November 13 and November 20 deadlines still stand is the open question for users with work in Conductor Cloud.
