"Don't be a meat proxy" names the failure mode of relaying agent output unread.

Willison coined it August 3 for pasting an LLM's output onward into a PR, a ticket, a Slack thread without reading, validating or rephrasing it. His argument: the human's value in an agent workflow is precisely the verification step, so skipping it makes you a lossy transport layer rather than a reviewer. It's landing because it gives teams vocabulary for a review-quality problem that was previously hard to raise without sounding like an objection to AI tooling generally.