Matt Wolfe warns against being an "AI meat proxy," a human who just copies AI output between people. He argues routine tasks like sending welcome emails and flagging delivery failures should be fully automated instead, using Bird's agent as an example that handles these steps without human intervention.
So there's this viral saying called an AI meat proxy, which is basically when you become like the human middleman between AI and its outputs. So like AI helps write an email, you copy and paste it to someone, they copy and paste it to their AI and copy and paste the response back to you. But when you really think about it, those small operational tasks are the best things to offload to AI, especially if you're running a whole business, because those things can actually really build up. And there's this startup called Bird, which is trying to fix that. So say someone signs up for your service, you can build a workflow where your Byrd agent sends them a welcome email, checks its delivery status, and flags a failed delivery for your team. So now you don't have to sit in the middle handling all of these tedious, repetitive tasks, and you still get to decide what goes out automatically and what you actually need to review. Because the whole point of having an AI assistant is to give yourself less busywork, not more. So if you want to check them out, head to the link pinned in the comment.
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