noun · first recorded 2026 · status: emerging
1.A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.
Please summarize what Claude found instead of making me review a wall of text from a meat proxy.
01Origin #
The earliest matching use located was an anonymous March 31, 2026 blog post titled "meat-based llm proxies." It described people who feed messages to an LLM and copy its responses back to others, saying that the recipient was effectively communicating with the model "via a meat proxy."
Niklas Gruhn popularized the shorter label with his August 3, 2026 essay "Don't be a meat proxy," focused on unread Claude output in Slack, pull requests, and group chats. Simon Willison amplified it the same day, and Gruhn's post subsequently reached the Hacker News front page with more than 1,800 points and 700 comments. The phrase then spread widely on X, including a viral post by Josh tried coding that received roughly 4,000 likes and 490,000 views.
02Notable sightings #
Josh tried coding · @joshtriedcodingalright whoever came up with the term MEAT PROXY is insane
Mark Kretschmann · @mark_kAre you a MEAT PROXY or SLOP CANNON? 😏
Gabriel Grinberg · @GabiGrinbergI call it "claude to table" but "meat proxy" is even better
David Ondrej · @DavidOndrej1meat proxy, a new term
03Spread the ism #
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