Most developers still see AI as a faster autocomplete.
That’s too small.
What surprised me with BMAD is not the promise of speed. It’s the discipline it forces upstream: PRD, architecture, role separation, validation loops, and a much more structured way to build software.
In practice, it changes the game in 5 ways:
- AI starts to behave more like a project team than a simple assistant
- rigor becomes more valuable than raw generation speed
- module development moves closer to true agentic workflows
- we begin building not only for humans, but for an emerging agent economy
- security and supply chain trust become impossible to treat as an afterthought
If you build modules in a complex ecosystem like PrestaShop, this shift matters now more than later.
I broke down these 5 revelations here:
https://nicolas-dabene.fr/en/articles/2026/02/17/revelations-surprenantes-methode-bmad-avenir-developpement-modules/
Curious to know whether you see AI coding tools as assistants… or as the first layer of a new software production model.
