We Aren't The First

Programmers just discovered that the entire corporate tech world has been "meat proxies" all along—basically biological middleware between management's unrealistic demands and actual working code. Middle management's having none of it though, pointing a gun like "always has been."

The existential crisis hits different when you realize you're not an engineer solving problems—you're just a fleshy API translating stakeholder requirements into semicolons. Your CS degree? Just documentation for the meat proxy service. That "10x developer" title? Premium tier meat proxy with better caching. We've been abstraction layers this whole time, and management's been the orchestrator all along.