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▶ 9:35 · AI Infrastructure · Local model inference and massive token spend signal compute shift to inference-time scaling
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Y Combinator

Conductor CEO Charlie Holtz Walks Us Through His AI Coding Setup

2026-06-04 · 3 company · 2 thematic
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charlie holtz

Charlie Holtz is the co-founder of Conductor, an AI coding agent orchestration app that lets developers manage multiple concurrent coding agents. The company was part of Y Combinator Summer 2024 batch.

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