In the first episode of our new series Full Stack, Conductor CEO and co-founder Charlie Holtz takes us into the details of how he sets up his workflow for coding and managing AI agents.
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Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
00:23 – Talking to computers more!
00:51 – Using Conductor to build Conductor
02:20 – Conductor “on the go”
02:40 – Does Charlie still write code by hand?
04:04 – Feeling like the CEO of a little company
04:18 – Other apps & software, customization
05:48 – “Slop-free” zones
06:33 – Conductor tech stack
07:06 – Don’t let the AI be your architect
08:31 – Where you can give the AI more free reign
08:59 – Enforcing workflows and building conviction
10:40 – Codex vs Claude Code
11:17 – Why is a terminal not enough?
12:01 – Thoughts on tokenmaxxing?
12:53 – How have workflows changed compared to 6 months ago?
13:25 – Most surprising thing someone has done with Conductor?
14:17 – Something obvious to you that the world doesn’t see yet?
15:00 – Code is becoming sawdust
15:48 – Call Of Duty modding to software & Outro
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