"Meat Proxy"

I stumbled across a piece of developer slang today that feels far too real: a meat proxy.

It describes a person who receives a question, pastes it into an AI chatbot, and immediately copy-pastes the unedited output back to their team without reading or validating the AI slop.

In network terms, a proxy forwards requests between servers. A meat proxy is just the biological version of that, a piece of flesh standing between a human prompt and an AI response while contributing zero original thought.

It is equal parts funny and annoying. If someone asks a question and gets a generic four-paragraph essay response two seconds later, everyone knows what happened. You might as well just invite the chatbot to the channel and cut out the middleman.

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