The Crazy One
The Crazy One
Stephen Gates
Ep 143 AI: AI Isn't a Tool Problem. It's a Culture Problem.
23 minutes Posted Apr 29, 2026 at 1:00 am.
Cold Open: CRZY Turns 4 & The Real AI Problem
Welcome to Episode 143
Building on Episode 142: The Plausible Noise Epidemic
We're All Output Drunk
Fix #1: Review Thinking, Kill Status Updates & Promote on Judgment
Speed Is the New Debt
Fix #2: Pre-Mortems Over Post-Mortems & The Kill List
The Pyramid Is Flipping
This Is a Culture Problem, Not a Tool Problem
The World Will Never Be This Slow Again
Agile Is the New Smart
Outro & Call to Action
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Show notes
Four years into running CRZY, Stephen has watched AI go from an interesting experiment to an organizational crisis that almost nobody is naming correctly. The problem isn't which model you're using. It's not your stack, your workflow, or whether you've got the right prompts. The problem is culture — and most leaders are treating it like a hardware upgrade. In this episode, Stephen breaks down the most urgent shifts he's seeing inside teams and companies right now: why being "output drunk" is ...