A podcast about building under pressure

Blood,
Sweat &Tokens

Two builders stop talking about AI and start building with it: real deadlines, real prototypes, and a weekly commitment to ship.

01

Real builds

Every episode comes out of work happening between recordings: prototypes, dead ends, and production pressure.

02

AI under load

Agentic workflows as they actually behave inside real product systems — not the demo, the deadline.

03

Season 1

Delete Your CMS asks whether natural language, agents, and a thin data layer can replace the admin UI.

Recent episodes

All 19
  1. 019SEP 1152:20

    Your CMS Is Dead, Long Live the Agent: Season One Finale and the Astra Escape

  2. 018SEP 0456:18

    Agent Collective: Collusion, Acquisitions, & the Impending UX Revolution

  3. 017AUG 2853:39

    Back to Basics & Off the Cloud: 3D-Printed Moles, a DIY Pocket, and Ditching Third Parties

  4. 016AUG 2146:11

    The Authenticity Paradox: EU AI Watermarks vs. Human Flaws

Who is in the room

2 builders

Taylor MacDonald

Partner and CTO at Ample

Taylor runs technical strategy for client work at Ample and brings the agency-side scar tissue: budgets, stakeholders, CMS migrations, and the pressure to make useful things ship.

Sean C. Davis

Developer experience at Netlify

Sean works on developer tools at Netlify and spends the show turning agentic workflows into real prototypes, then unpacking where the magic holds and where it gets expensive.

Presented by Ample

Blood, Sweat & Tokens is presented by Ample, the digital agency where Taylor and team ship client work under real deadlines — the same pressure this show is built on.

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