'Don't Be a Meat Proxy' Tops Hacker News With 1,750 Points, Naming the Failure Mode of Relaying AI Output Unread
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Niklas Gruhn's August 3 post coined 'meat proxy' for people who paste AI output at colleagues without engaging with it, and it became the top story on Hacker News with roughly 1,750 points. His prescription is specific: 'By all means, prompt AI. But don't just relay the output. Read it, understand it, validate it, and then write a response in your own words (a decent certificate that you've done the prior steps).' The framing treats rewriting in your own voice as the proof-of-work that separates contribution from transmission.