Are you a meat proxy? A simple rule of thumb

With AI, people have never been able to create as much work as ever before. And we’re now seeing people generate huge amounts of slop: low-quality, low-effort work. Not a week goes by without seeing documents, blog posts, or sites that have so much content I highly doubt the creator even looked at it. Yet these creator are asking us (users, readers) to go through this barrage of content.

As we’re all using these AI tools, a good rule of thumb that I’ll be using more often is:

If it takes you less time to generate something than it takes someone else to review, you’re a meat proxy.

Somewhat inspired from the Stop being skeptical about AI development podcast episode from The Pragmatic Engineer podcast.