## Metadata - Author: [[Benn Stancil]] - Full Title:: Go Crazy, Folks, Go Crazy - Category:: #🗞️Articles - URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/go-crazy-folks-go-crazy - Read date:: [[2026-02-14]] ## Highlights > data analysts, who also write a lot of code, are *not* using AI to do their jobs. Though most use chat applications like ChatGPT, a 2025 survey from dbt Labs found that [less than a third](https://www.getdbt.com/resources/state-of-analytics-engineering-2025) are using dedicated development tools. Things may have changed since that survey—it’s from *early* 2025, which was years ago [these days](https://benn.substack.com/p/gas-town)—but by most accounts, AI seems to be upending analysts’ lives much less than it’s upending engineers’. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khcfb6vcp426r6qwwyp6g298)) > analysis isn’t testable. You find out if [your recommendation](https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/43659380/sources-mavericks-trading-doncic-lakers-anthony-davis) was good after the recommendation [plays itself out](https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/47828122/mavericks-trade-anthony-davis-wizards-sources-say). ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khcfc0ytfhhmc8p6m3d4z9gz)) > Your entire job is double-checking the numbers; how could anyone ever trust an AI that isn’t writing queries through a version-controlled semantic layer? Up close, we can’t just do it; we have do it *right*.[7](https://benn.substack.com/p/go-crazy-folks-go-crazy/#footnote-7) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khcfj4qwa4w9k6yghztss7wk)) > It’s a form of the [Gell-Mann amnesia effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect): Within our area of expertise, the more we worry about the details, and the more we forget that other people don’t. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khcfj9mv5sz3zvr7735rzh0f)) > When we are drowning in content, the only way to get people’s attention is by [being crazy](https://benn.substack.com/p/everyone-is-crazy-now). Software may not be so different. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khcfpm9fwzach9kq0dxea05s)) > the right way and winning way aren’t necessarily the same thing. And maybe the future of software is stuff that’s made by [one person](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/tiktok-creator-khaby-lame-deal-brand-1236486046/) who was willing to try something [crazy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4PB0XoLbm8&t=8s). ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01khcfpt85btjb9dqf010gt7n9))