The Meat Proxy Engineering

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A friend recently coined the term "meat proxy" for them, and it feels incredibly accurate. Picture this: a Staff Engineer sharing raw Claude artifacts with a casual "maybe," shifting the burden onto the rest of the team to verify what their AI actually generated. They generate massive volumes of code or architecture documents incredibly fast, but the net productivity of the team actually drops because of the massive cognitive load pushed onto reviewers.

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