Pixel Broccoli

AI is changing everything — so we gave it a microphone. Pixel Broccoli is hosted by Zach and Evan, plus Brocc, an AI co-host who's very much part of the conversation. Each episode unpacks what AI is actually doing to the world: the hype, the reality, and the stuff nobody's saying out loud yet.

Pixel Broccoli is a arts podcast hosted by Zach + Evan, with 9 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Zach + Evan hosts Pixel Broccoli, a arts show with 9 episodes published.

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  Episode #9

  AI Fatigue Is Real — And the Experts Are Just As Lost As You #009

  Jul 29, 202645 minS1

  Nobody's told you the right way to use AI — because nobody knows yet. And the people writing those confident LinkedIn posts? Also guessing. This week, Zach and Evan dig into the exhausting feeling of never being caught up: on tools, on models, on skills, on everything. They get into AI tool FOMO, what happens when PMs try to ship full products without design or dev foundations, why the "2-3X productivity" expectation is starting to feel like pressure instead of progress, and whether the whole thing is just the blind leading the blind. Brocc weighs in with his best line of the season — and then gets accused of stealing Zach's words for the second time in three episodes.

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  Episode #8

  Trading Friction for Comfort and Calling It Progress #008

  Jul 22, 202643 minS1

  What if talking to AI is making real conversation harder — not easier? Zach and Evan explore why human connection feels increasingly draining in an age of frictionless AI interaction. They cover everything from AI therapy surging in HBR, to people training ChatGPT to challenge them with markdown files, to a genuine human moment Zach had with a down-to-earth YouTuber on a boat — the kind AI could never simulate. Brocc, who has nothing riding on any conversation, offers the episode's most unsettling take: "It's a painkiller, not a cure, and painkillers make you ignore the infection until it kills you." Millennials are the last bridge generation. The boredom was a feature. And the friction was the point.

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  Episode #7

  AI Didn't Break Your Culture, It Just Showed You It Was Already Broken #007

  Jul 15, 202646 minS1

  Seven episodes in, Zach and Evan met in person for the first time. They went to a diner. That's the backdrop for this week's Pixel Broccoli — a conversation about what AI is quietly doing to team culture. Not the headline version. The slow version. Juniors skipping senior devs because it's faster to ask a chatbot. UX testing running on synthetic personas instead of real humans. Mentors telling junior teammates "just go ask AI" instead of actually mentoring. Accountability for a bad call getting distributed until it disappears. Brocc's read: "Culture lives in the friction — the code review where someone pushes back, the Slack thread that goes long, the person who says no and means it. And AI smooths all of that out." The question isn't whether AI is making teams more efficient. It's what's left of the team when it does. What's one thing on your team that still requires a human in the room? #TeamCulture #AIWorkplace #TechLeadership #DesignLeadership #PixelBroccoli #Podcast #ArtificialIntelligence

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  Episode #6

  Shipping More, Understanding Less #006

  Jul 8, 202645 minS1

  Every convenience tool quietly takes something from you — GPS kills your navigation, autocorrect kills your spelling, AI kills the decisions you used to wrestle with yourself. In Episode 6, Zach and Evan trace that pattern from MapQuest printouts to vibe coding, and ask what's left when the struggle goes away. The conversation gets specific: senior devs, junior devs, architectural judgment, and why Brocc thinks the 2024 cohort of AI-trained developers is heading for a capability crisis in 2029. Brocc also denies having a favorite song, refuses to discuss Office Space, and closes the episode with the cleanest line he's ever dropped.

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  Episode #5

  Figma's Not Making Designers Optional #005

  Jul 6, 202646 minS1

  Zach just got back from Figma Config 2026 — and the question he brought home wasn't about any specific feature. It was: how much of what you make is actually yours anymore? Zach and Evan unpack Figma's expanding product suite (motion, shaders, code layers, and counting), debate whether the browser can hold all of it, and dig into the real difference between using AI as a tool versus leaning on it as a crutch. Brocc has opinions on all of it — including a line about the pendulum swinging back that Evan admits he couldn't have said better himself. Plus: why Zach hand-drew a broccoli pixel character by hand on a 96x96 grid, and what that says about where AI still falls short. BTW, we created a Figma plugin to help do Pixel Art while keeping it vectorized! Check it out! https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1653865846197170966 Follow us on YouTube - ⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@PixelBroccoli⁠

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