Niklas Gruhn
Developer who coined “meat proxy” for people who paste an AI answer back without reading it
A software developer writing at gruhn.me. His post “Don’t be a meat proxy”, published 3 August 2026, named the habit of forwarding a chatbot’s answer to a question you were asked without reading or checking it. Simon Willison linked it the same day and credited him with the coining.
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