The most hated people in tech
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A meat proxy forwards AI output they never read. You ask why their pull request was built this way, and the answer is that Claude decided. So why are meat proxies the most hated people in tech right now? Who's to blame, the person, the AI or the company? And what does it cost you when you're the one doing it? We go through the post that made the term blow up on Hacker News and a daily.dev thread on the "I don't know, Claude wrote this" pandemic. We hear from curl's Daniel Stenberg on the human in between, and look at what Duolingo, Amazon and Shopify did about AI use in reviews and token leaderboards, BetterUp Labs and Stanford's research on workslop, and the Ghostty maintainer who banned a contributor for it. It ends with plain advice on how not to be one, and what to do when you're on the receiving end. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:39 What's a meat proxy? 2:35 Who's to blame? 5:18 What does it cost you? 8:30 What is it doing to open source? 9:44 How not to be one
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