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After the Twenty-Minute Draft PR: Obie on "Meat Proxies," and the Step He Admits He Never Took
Sitting at a friend's computer, Obie Fernandez went from one profane prompt to a draft PR and five Jira epics in twenty minutes, then took his friend's self-deprecating "meat proxy" and turned it on anyone who just converts other people's decisions into code. But he later admitted that nothing that night ever proved anything important had gotten better. That self-correction puts the brakes on all the speed.
Canva's CTO: My Engineers Wake Up and the AI Agent Already Wrote Last Night's Code
Canva CTO: engineers write detailed instructions, AI agents execute overnight. Senior engineers now 'largely review.' Anthropic CEO calls this 'Centaur Phase.' Few orgs redesigned work for AI. Cora startup achieved 20-30 eng output with 6 people. AI improves exponentially, humans don't.