Conductor Joins the Cloud Coding Agent Rush: Remote AI Devs Leave the Laptop

For about two years, "AI coding agent" meant something that ran next to your editor: a Copilot completion, a Cursor chat panel, a Claude Code session in your terminal. The work used your CPU, held your attention, and stopped when you closed the laptop. That assumption is breaking. A separate class of tools runs the agent on remote infrastructure instead — you describe a task, close the tab, and come back to a pull request. Conductor is the newest name moving in this direction, and it lands in a...