Gah this sucks! Conductor is my main development tool. Now I'm forced to look for alternatives. Why can't they open source it?
Over the years I've gotten extremely conservative with adopting any new tooling into my workflow, for exactly reasons like this.
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With labs spending their fundings left and right and vibe-coding, it's absolutely irresponsible to adopt anything less than 18 months old.
Trusts suck
They ruin innovation top down and bottom up at the same time
Not tried it yet but DeltaDB from ZED (and ZED editor more generally) could cover it for you and they are open source.
I switched to paseo.sh several months ago. It's just as good if not better.
respectfully, its a claude wrapper. with that said if you really can't live without it-- you have the binary, you know what to do.
Western AI giants have hundreds of billions of dollars to make back in a world where China is releasing open source tooling and open weights models. How else does they make their money back other than finding _something_ proprietary to sell.