AI Roundup: Amp Code & Conductor
An enterprise-only underdog & the breakthrough app for AI psychosis inducing agentic engineering
It’s been a few months since the last AI Roundup, but today I’m dropping the latest case study on the latest AI tools I’ve been using that have unlocked incredible productivity (and not exclusively for my boss).
Past posts have had deep dives on Github Copilot, Cursor, Cline, and Roo. But, AI tooling and workflows have continued to advance at breakneck speeds.
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Today, we’ll first cover Amp Code from Sourcegraph, which I’ve seen nearly no public discourse on, despite performance that rivals Claude Code with built-in model performance & price optimization.
Next, will be Conductor, an agent orchestrator Mac app which, while sometimes flush with memory leaks, has finally given me a taste of the AI psychosis that I’ve seen the worst AI hype men at the W2 high on for the past year.
Let’s dive in.
