Your AI-pilled coworker is getting a bit… meaty.
Many office workers know what it’s like to be inundated with unreviewed AI outputs. Maybe you have a coworker who pastes messages from ChatGPT right into Slack. Maybe your manager keeps using too many em-dashes, or your direct report can’t explain the code they just shipped.
There’s a new word for these AI users: “meat proxy.”
Techies on X are calling them “very annoying” and “the first ones to be replaced.” For some, being a meat proxy might even be the “biggest career risk of 2026.”
What is a meat proxy?
The term “meat proxy” was popularized by Niklas Gruhn, a German software engineer, in an…
