'Don't become a meat proxy': Intel engineer's viral warning on over-reliance on AI coding agents
JFPuget · x · 2026-11-10
An Intel engineer's post is going viral: colleagues now take 30 minutes to answer questions that should take a minute because they must prompt their AI agent first; one colleague asked how he came up with an idea — "I used my brain" — while the agent had already removed that idea's implementation, which he overrode. He calls it the "meat proxy era" and urges people to keep thinking for themselves. He clarifies he codes both by hand and with AI; his point is against 100% AI-dependent coding.
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