Meat Proxy

A person who mindlessly relays an AI's output to others instead of engaging with it themselves — passing along generated text without reading, understanding, or validating it, adding nothing beyond being the human in the loop. Popularized by Niklas Gruhn's post "Don't be a meat proxy" (2026): the an…

Generator Agent

A single, one-shot LLM call that produces its output directly — no turns, no tool use, no observation loop. Less a formal architecture than a useful counterpoint to the ReAct agent: where ReAct interleaves reasoning and action over many steps, a generator agent just generates and stops.

ReAct Agent

An agent pattern that interleaves reasoning and acting: the model alternates between natural-language 'thoughts' (reasoning traces) and actions (tool calls, queries), feeding each observation back into the next reasoning step. Introduced by Yao et al. in 'ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in L…

Uber Minutes

An ETA that is just total bullshit.

Coined by my dad while setting up a brand-new computer. He was doing the whole system setup—reinstall the OS, the works—and the progress bar said something stupid like '3 weeks remaining.' I had to wa...

Civic Hygiene

The principle that technologists should be mindful of the ways their technologies could be misused by authoritarian powers. Coined by Bruce Schneier in 2010.

I came across this term reading Terence Eden's blog post about the UK government's 2026 wildfire emergency alert.