SwiftRocks author calls for firing AI meat-proxy developers

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The author argues that software engineers who use AI agents to blindly generate and copy-paste code or answers with zero human validation—acting merely as a meat proxy—should face disciplinary action, including termination. This practice wastes company resources, harms product quality, and shifts the burden of reviewing and fixing nonsense code onto colleagues. The author contends that anyone unwilling to do their actual job should quit rather than weaponize AI to fake productivity. Open article →