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The BMad Code

Brian Madison

The BMad Code is the code for unlocking AI in your life.

Hosted by Brian Madison, founder of the BMad Method, this is a show for anyone who senses that AI is rewriting the rules, in work, in creativity, in business, and in everyday life, and wants to be on the right side of that shift.

Each episode is a candid conversation with the people defining, shaping, or just figuring out what an AI-native life actually looks like in practice. Builders, designers, founders, creators, musicians, operators, and curious humans of every flavor. We dig into how to think before you prompt, how to build software people actually want, how to make music and art and content with AI as a collaborator, and how to redesign your company and your daily life around what is now possible.

If AI feels like it is moving too fast and you want a thoughtful guide through it, you are in the right place.

Join the community at bmadcode.com.

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  • S1 · E3
    July 14 · 2 hr 12 min

    Stop Babysitting Your AI: Context Gathering & Code Review, Looped! (with Alexey Verkhovsky)

    Stop babysitting context gathering and code reviews: Quick Dev folds BMAD's create-story, dev-story, and review-story into one agentic loop, and in this episode key open source contributor Alexey Verkhovsky walks the whole diagram with Brian: intent, spec, implement, adversarial review, triage. How it evolved and where it is going. Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/ufOyrZhRj6U Join the BMAD Discord: https://discord.gg/gk8jAdXWmj Everything BMAD in one place: https://bmadcode.com/ GitHub: https://github.com/bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD/ Support the show: https://buymeacoffee.com/bmad Chapters: 0:00 Welcome to BMad Code Live 0:40 Meet Alexey Verkhovsky 1:39 Why Quick Dev exists 9:06 Quick Dev vs. vibe coding 14:36 Context windows and human attention 21:18 Brownfield code and the dev-loop question 29:53 How big should an intent be? 36:46 Walking through the Quick Dev diagram 41:26 One-shot mode for small changes 45:13 Plan: the story spec template 51:00 Implement, then never trust the diff 56:54 The adversarial review layers and their cost 1:00:00 The valley of despair: triaging AI findings 1:03:46 You are the bottleneck, not the AI 1:05:59 Customizing the review layers 1:11:39 Q&A: do you even need a PRD? 1:17:30 Q&A: one model codes, another reviews 1:21:28 Quick Dev vs. BMAD Loop vs. Dev Auto 1:23:34 Testing, TDD, and the benchmark hype 1:31:52 Triage, loopbacks, and fixing findings 1:41:05 Deferred work: parking the side quests 1:50:49 Present: a narrative for reviewing the change 1:56:00 Story, epic, or whole app: how much to batch 1:59:48 The story-one tracer bullet strategy 2:04:06 Q&A: running reviewers without sub-agents 2:06:42 Predictions and sign-off

  • S1 · E2
    July 7 · 1 hr 29 min

    bmad-loop: Building Epics While You Sleep — with Paul "pinkyD" Bean

    Episode 2 of the BMad Code Podcast — the audio feed of the first-ever BMad Code weekly livestream. Brian "BMad" Madison is joined by founding community member Paul "pinkyD" Bean, creator of bmad-loop: the new BMad Method feature that autonomously runs your epics-and-stories dev cycle — spec, develop, review, fix, repeat — with no babysitting required. Paul shares his path from getting a Borland C compiler for Christmas at age 12, to programming MUDs in the 90s, to writing pilot games for a movie studio ("they said it didn't look like Halo"), to his day job as a senior consultant at Right Systems Inc — and how AI reignited his passion for coding. Then the pair go deep on bmad-loop: why intelligent, deterministic loops beat raw loop engineering, how Quick Dev replaced the manual story-by-story cycle, the deferred work engine that slices oversized stories instead of stalling, escalations and the resolve agent, overnight epic runs, sweep runs, and support for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and GitHub Copilot CLI. Plus: the long-awaited truth about why there is no BMad Method v5, AI game asset generation, and the "dark factory" future of software. The second half narrates a live demo of bmad-loop building a Unity game — the full video is on the BMad Code YouTube channel. Livestreams are every Sunday; find Paul as pinkyD in the BMad Discord. Watch the video: https://youtu.be/iW86sMHszJw Links: Website: https://bmadcode.com/ GitHub: https://github.com/bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BMadCode Discord: https://discord.gg/gk8jAdXWmj X: https://x.com/BMadCode Support: https://buymeacoffee.com/bmad

  • S1 · E1
    May 4 · 1 hr 25 min

    Trading 25 Years of Pixel Pushing for AI Strategy: The Token Slot Machine, You're Doing UX Backwards, and Why Two Agents Beat Two Hundred Skills

    After 25 years of UX design, Marten Angner spent his first 20 minutes with the BMad method and called it a love story. Five months later he is rebuilding how Whiteport Design Studio works, and rethinking what a designer is even for. In this conversation Marten walks through the moment AI clicked for him, why specs are the new code, and the mindset shift that separates designers who stay stuck from designers who get ten times faster. What we cover: - The 20-minute love story, and what made BMad different from every other AI tool he tried - "Salad before dessert": why most teams approach AI in exactly the wrong order - Boxing the AI in with documents so it stays on the rails instead of going Vegas slot machine - Sketch to spec to code as a working pipeline, not a slogan - The pixel pusher to strategist identity reframe, and what it costs to make - The trigger map: why we are building this, for whom, and what changes - Seven agents you can name versus two hundred slash commands you cannot remember - Iteration speed: from one cycle a year to ten in a day, and the warning that comes with it - Brilliance takes brain cycles: where AI gets you clear, and where it cannot make you smart - Saga and Freya: giving everyone in the company a strategy driver's license --- bmadcode.com

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