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AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings

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Post by kaashif »

o1bf2k25n8g5 wrote: post #133
kaashif wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's usually possible for the person running a small project to ask everyone for status and know what everyone's going to say in the meeting before the meeting. Then the meeting is pointless. But not all projects allow for that.

> It's usually possible for the person running a small project to ask everyone for status Perhaps, for efficiency, they could ask everyone simultaneously in parallel, or at least roughly around the same time? To maximize creativity and opportunity, perhaps we could then figure out some way to share each person's status update with every other person on the team?

Are you intentionally describing having a Slack chat for a project and asking for status updates there?

You still don't need a meeting for that if everyone actually does it.

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Post by kaashif »

coliveira wrote: post #103
kaashif wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's usually possible for the person running a small project to ask everyone for status and know what everyone's going to say in the meeting before the meeting. Then the meeting is pointless. But not all projects allow for that.

Why do you think a larger meeting is a remedy for this? Quite the opposite, if you can't get a personal status from a large group, doing the meeting is completely pointless because it demonstrate lack of preparation.

It's not. That's not what I meant or said. I said not all projects allow for getting status ahead of time.

This is a nice way of saying that some people just won't tell you what they're up to async, you have to wring information out of them synchronously. They're just bad at communicating.

On a well functioning team I can rely on people just reporting status themselves when something relevant happens and reaching out for help. But some people just don't do that, especially people from other teams, departments, etc.

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Post by careful_ai »

Brutal truth: we invited AI into meetings for efficiency, and now we’re discovering just how much of us it captures. What hit me is how quickly “AI assistant” can become “silent witness.” If organizations don’t set clear guardrails, convenience turns into compliance liability. We need transparency protocols—who sees what, why, and when.

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Post by lynx97 »

adwn wrote: post #126
lynx97 wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Weird guess. No, you're off by 18 years. However, I am not working in a software shop.

> Weird guess. The guess probably stems from the number in your user name: 97.

Ahh, right! That is actually a reference to Terminator... 29, August 1997...

Re: AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings

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Post by DidYaWipe »

meroes wrote: post #65

The problem is these meetings are so low information density even an AI summary is not worth my time. And it’s not some elitist mindset. It’s like the entire reason there are these regular meetings is to make some mid level person feel better. They like giving directions vocally because that authority is harder to question than if they wrote up a memo and all the receivers can poke holes in it. I’m convinced most mee…

"These meetings?" Which ones, exactly?

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Post by octo888 »

xyzzy123 wrote: post #100
meroes wrote: post #65

The problem is these meetings are so low information density even an AI summary is not worth my time. And it’s not some elitist mindset. It’s like the entire reason there are these regular meetings is to make some mid level person feel better. They like giving directions vocally because that authority is harder to question than if they wrote up a memo and all the receivers can poke holes in it. I’m convinced most mee…

There's this huge difference in quality between execs who work in writing and execs who NEVER write _anything_ down, which is surprisingly common. In my experience it correlates closely with toxic behaviour and I don't know why it's common for senior management in many orgs to allow people to operate in this style.

Totally agree with this. Took me a while to realise my manager who never writes anything down was doing it on purpose.

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Post by Hamuko »

rekenaut wrote: post #109
lynx97 wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Trust me, the 80% meeting workday became prevalent loooooong before the 2020s.

Isn't this just called "being a Product Owner"? I've never seen those people do anything but sit in meetings.

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Post by [deleted] »

dyauspitr wrote: post #118
meroes wrote: post #65

The problem is these meetings are so low information density even an AI summary is not worth my time. And it’s not some elitist mindset. It’s like the entire reason there are these regular meetings is to make some mid level person feel better. They like giving directions vocally because that authority is harder to question than if they wrote up a memo and all the receivers can poke holes in it. I’m convinced most mee…

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Re: AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings

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Post by [deleted] »

dyauspitr wrote: post #118
meroes wrote: post #65

The problem is these meetings are so low information density even an AI summary is not worth my time. And it’s not some elitist mindset. It’s like the entire reason there are these regular meetings is to make some mid level person feel better. They like giving directions vocally because that authority is harder to question than if they wrote up a memo and all the receivers can poke holes in it. I’m convinced most mee…

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Post by KeplerBoy »

apwell23 wrote: post #23

> “We’re moving into a world where nothing will be forgotten,” Allie K. Miller I am constantly amazed by allie K miller positioning herself as leader and visionary in every hot trend.

That statement is anything but visionary.
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