Your Claude Is Talking to My Claude. We’re Just the Middleware Now.

In meetings, humans increasingly act as copy-paste intermediaries between AI chatbots, with neither participant generating original sentences. The author observes that two conversations occur simultaneously—one between the AIs doing the thinking and another between humans acting as the physical layer forwarding responses.

Member-only story Two AI Tabs. Two Humans. Zero Original Sentences. Your Claude Is Talking to My Claude. We’re Just the Middleware Now. When AI starts talking through us, who is really thinking? Every team has one of these meetings now. Priya asks a question. Marcus says “let me check something” and goes quiet, not thinking, reading. He copies something from a browser tab and pastes it into the chat. Priya reads it. Frowns slightly. Opens her own tab, types something in, waits a few seconds, and pastes back a completely different answer. One she didn’t write either. Four minutes in. Two people in the room. Neither one has said an original sentence yet. Two conversations are happening. Only one of them involves the humans actually in it. Let’s Name What’s Actually Happening You are not talking to your colleague. You are forwarding packets. Your Claude has an opinion. Their Claude has an opinion. You two are the physical layer — the humans doing the copy-pasting between two systems quietly doing most of the actual thinking.