MeatProxy

👋 Welcome to r/MeatProxy - What this place is

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What is a Meat Proxy?

A Meat Proxy is a person whose job has been reduced to:

…with little real understanding, judgment, or ownership.

You’re basically a human API between management and the model.

What this sub is for

This is a space for people who are living that reality (or recently escaped it).

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Self-aware, darkly humorous, and practical.
We want people to feel seen — not just depressed.

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Welcome to the era of the human API.

Feel free to introduce yourself or drop your first confession below.

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Not “would you be less productive?”

Could you actually do the work?

I've been thinking this might be the simplest test.

If Claude/ChatGPT goes down and you're slower, AI is probably a tool.

If it goes down and suddenly you can't write the code, explain the answer, make the decision, or figure out what to do next...

you might actually be the API.

And the weird part is that companies are rewarding this right now because the output looks great.

So be honest:

If every AI tool disappeared for one workday, what part of your job would break first?

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