There's no point at which turning your brain off will work

The author argues that passively relying on LLMs to complete tasks without human oversight—a practice called "meat proxy" development—offers no long-term job security for workers. As LLMs improve, companies will eventually have no reason to employ humans in this role and can simply run the AI in automated loops, making brain-off AI usage ultimately self-defeating for employees. The author suggests that meaningful work requires active human judgment, quality control, and pushing AI beyond its comfortable capabilities.