Jul 13, 2026 · 49 min · 18 segments
Brady Gaster is a Principal PM Architect at GitHub, where he works on Apps, Agents, MIDI, and most notably, Squad — an open-source framework for orchestrating AI agent teams with GitHub Copilot. A…
Brady GasterGuest
Jeffrey PalermoHost
Uh, but for the people who have not heard you before, heard you speak, or in many places, maybe just getting to, to know you for the first time, um, kinda go back in time, uh, if you will.
Is there something that you remember that grasped you and you got interested in computers and figuring out how to make computers do interesting things that has kind of, like, kept you in this field all these years?
I would probably go back to, there's this, uh, old techno band called Front 242.
They're kinda like, they kinda ride the fence between industrial and, like, actual EDM.
And somebody asked them, they were like, "When we listen to your stuff, it's almost like your synthesizers, like you're, like you're punishing them.
[laughs] You know? Like, "Why does it sound like that? They don't sound like LFOs.
Like, what, what are you doing to these devices?" And the guy said something to the extent of, like, "We like to try to push the instruments, like, to see what they can take." You know what I mean?
And I think my thing has always been like, how far can we push these things? Like, how can we break them? You know? Like, like, uh, can we get them just within inches of breaking and then figure out how we can make them not break? And I know you're really into CICD and, [clears throat] you know, DevOps and that kind of thing.
You know, it's like band-aiding things so that they can continue to get better.
Uh, but for the people who have not heard you before, heard you speak, or in many places, maybe just getting to, to know you for the first time, um, kinda go back in time, uh, if you will.
Is there something that you remember that grasped you and you got interested in computers and figuring out how to make computers do interesting things that has kind of, like, kept you in this field all these years?
I would probably go back to, there's this, uh, old techno band called Front 242.
They're kinda like, they kinda ride the fence between industrial and, like, actual EDM.
And somebody asked them, they were like, "When we listen to your stuff, it's almost like your synthesizers, like you're, like you're punishing them.
[laughs] You know? Like, "Why does it sound like that? They don't sound like LFOs.
Like, what, what are you doing to these devices?" And the guy said something to the extent of, like, "We like to try to push the instruments, like, to see what they can take." You know what I mean?
And I think my thing has always been like, how far can we push these things? Like, how can we break them? You know? Like, like, uh, can we get them just within inches of breaking and then figure out how we can make them not break? And I know you're really into CICD and, [clears throat] you know, DevOps and that kind of thing.
You know, it's like band-aiding things so that they can continue to get better.
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