Developer Niklas Gruhn coined the term on August 3, 2026, for the Slack and pull-request pattern of pasting a model's reply verbatim. The prescribed alternative is to read, understand, and validate the output, then answer in your own words — a certificate that those steps happened. Distinct from vibe coding (how you generate) and workslop (polished junk): meat proxy is the social move of handing unread output to another human. By October 2026 the term was trending as a workplace diagnosis, not only slang: whether the job now rewards unread relay.