Re:Claude Meetings
by phil21 on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:12PM
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> And then what? What services could you offer to make a living?
Something that doesn't involve spending 4-6 hours a day in useless meetings like most professional administrative class folks seem to do these days? Even if there is some "coordination" gains to be had here, AI seems better at it than humans could ever be either way.
Actual useful meetings can and should be rare and attended by actual human decision makers when required. Open source software (for example) shows these sorts of situations tend to be rather rare in properly managed projects.
I see most (scheduled) meetings as a failure. If you had great systems in place to organize asynchronous work it would eliminate the need for them. Meetings are not useful work. They are overhead. Eliminating them should be the objective - but too many folks are economically incentivized to maximize them.
This sort of thing sounds like a win to me, regardless of short-term pain.
Something that doesn't involve spending 4-6 hours a day in useless meetings like most professional administrative class folks seem to do these days? Even if there is some "coordination" gains to be had here, AI seems better at it than humans could ever be either way.
Actual useful meetings can and should be rare and attended by actual human decision makers when required. Open source software (for example) shows these sorts of situations tend to be rather rare in properly managed projects.
I see most (scheduled) meetings as a failure. If you had great systems in place to organize asynchronous work it would eliminate the need for them. Meetings are not useful work. They are overhead. Eliminating them should be the objective - but too many folks are economically incentivized to maximize them.
This sort of thing sounds like a win to me, regardless of short-term pain.