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Essay warns 'meat proxy' LLM workflows offer no lasting job security

A software engineering blogger describes a growing trend where workers let LLMs perform tasks like coding or summarizing without verifying the output, simply relaying results back and forth—dubbed being a 'meat proxy.' The author argues that while this approach has improved since early 2025, its logical endpoint is self-defeating: if an LLM can eventually produce good software unsupervised, employers will simply automate the loop and remove the human entirely.