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Conductor Cloud shuts down in 12 days. Is your work portable?
I posted four Shorts today. The Conductor shutdown is the one I’d act on first if my work were sitting in Cloud.
I gave five AI setups the same script job, scored blind by Codex. Sonnet scored 45/50, Opus 44, and my best local Qwen GGUF build 38. I picked Qwen for local script work; both Claudes scored higher.
Full breakdown with sources: https://www.500xengineer.com/blog/select-your-ai
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generates up to 15 seconds of video with native audio for about $1.04 at 720p. There’s no free API tier, and clips carry a SynthID watermark.
Full breakdown with sources: https://www.500xengineer.com/blog/gemini-omni-15s
Conductor is joining Meta. Cloud goes read-only Nov 13, then shuts down and begins deleting user data Nov 20. Export now: right-click each cloud workspace → “Transfer to local,” or Settings > Account > Export data.
Full breakdown with sources: https://www.500xengineer.com/blog/conductor-cloud-shutdown
OpenAI Images 2.6 makes animated GIFs in ChatGPT, Codex and the API. OpenAI’s own guide says precise text can still trip it up, so I’d add prices and names myself.
Full breakdown with sources: https://www.500xengineer.com/blog/openai-image-gifs
My Sunday question: if an AI tool your workflow depends on disappeared in 12 days, what would you lose, and how would you move that work to a stack you control?
Weekly Live Build + Q&A: Wednesday Nov 11 at 12pm ET. Details in the Calendar tab.
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Conductor Cloud shuts down in 12 days. Is your work portable?
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