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Niklas Gruhn
Personal blog · gruhn.me/blog · on HN as ngruhnprogrammingai
Niklas Gruhn's personal blog at gruhn.me covers programming and ai. Since 2026, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Don't be a meat proxy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Niklas Gruhn's 'Don't Be a Meat Proxy' post (2026-08-03) about not pasting unchecked LLM output at work. Commenters also share it as a resource on enjoying programming and AI reliance.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Don't be a meat proxy12 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2026-08-03
- A Test for AI Consciousness2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-17
What Hacker News says?
Send the coworker a few resources on this. https://dontpastetheai.com/ https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/ https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read
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on “It's still ok to enjoy programming”Submitted The Beauty of Roundabouts as a story · 100 points
HN discussionIt appears to be a pattern where I work "expert novice" eventually causes serious incident but is unable to root-cause on their own. They've become a meat proxy[0] prompting LLM to root cause for them and the ability to fix is capped by LLMs ability, not the engineer's. I've tried to convince management before this happened and yet here we are. [0] https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/
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on “Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance”Submitted Don't be a meat proxy as a story · 83 points
HN discussionhttps://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/ in case someone missed the reference
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on “ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit”Submitted NP-Overrated as a story · 24 points
HN discussionIf we wanted to find out what an LLM thought we'd ask the LLM. Don't be a meat proxy. https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/
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on “Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)”Submitted Lean Explained with TypeScript as a story · 11 points
HN discussion- how come your blog page doesnt show a list of posts? - https://gruhn.me/blog - isnt that like standard behavior on any blog?
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on “Don't be a meat proxy”Submitted Atrocious AI-Written Tests as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI have been using the term "meat proxy" from Gruhn's blog [1] but was worried about sounding uncouth in an office setting. The "polite" version of this page solves that problem nicely. The "angry" version is funny, too. [1]: https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/
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on “Don't Paste the AI, please”Submitted Atrocious AI-Written Tests as a story · 3 points
HN discussionRelated: Don't Be a Meat Proxy: https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/ No Meat Proxy: https://nomeatproxy.com/ How to Passive-Aggressively Shame People Who Use LLMs Selfishly: https://joshmoody.org/blog/selfish-ai/ AI;DR: https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read
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on “Don't Paste the AI, please”Submitted Lean Explained with TypeScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis was posted a couple weeks ago, the term “meat proxy” was used. https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/
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on “Don't Paste the AI, please”Submitted A Test for AI Consciousness as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWow it’s actually that bad… I was looking for https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/ but it appears people have co-opted the original phrase and out SEOed the original article… only to make a less concise, AI generated copy of it mimicking nohello…. https://dontbeameatproxy.com
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on “Don't Paste the AI, please”Submitted A Test for AI Consciousness as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis was recently on the front page as well https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/
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on “Don't Paste the AI, please”Submitted What happens at 60% unemployment rate? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionsame but shorter (already posted on hn): https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/
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on “Don't Paste the AI, please”Don't be a meat proxy! See this all over the place, it's very frustrating and i've advocated for stopping this practice at my company! - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151933 - https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/
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on “AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot”Related: Don't Be a Meat Proxy: https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/ No Meat Proxy: https://nomeatproxy.com/ How to Passive-Aggressively Shame People Who Use LLMs Selfishly: https://joshmoody.org/blog/selfish-ai/
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on “AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)”
