A Hands-On Review of Conductor, an AI Parallel Runner App

The nice thing about Conductor is that it has one of the simplest strap lines: “Run a bunch of Claude Codes in parallel”. But before I continue, I must point out that there is another product called Orkes Conductor (previously: Netflix Conductor) that is pivoting to AI, but is nevertheless quite different. The world of agentic is beginning to get crowded, isn’t it? Anyway, this version of Conductor comes from Melty Labs. It belongs to a new category of AI coding apps I’m calling “agentic parallel runner apps.”

First of all, why…