AI coding agents are migrating from local machines to persistent cloud environments. Conductor, an AI coding startup that raised $22M Series A, launched Conductor Cloud — hosted workspaces where coding agents continue running after developers disconnect. This follows similar moves by Anthropic (Claude Managed Agents), Mistral, and Roo Code. Conductor's founder frames the shift as solving an interface and orchestration challenge: managing more than 3-5 parallel agents requires cloud infrastructure. The broader industry trend sees local environments becoming monitoring dashboards rather than execution environments, with developers supervising fleets of longer-running agents rather than writing code directly.
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