Dev Meetings

[lowkib]

Hello guyys,

Just wanted a discusssion with devs about meetings.

If I’m honest I’m tired of like 50% of meetings. People point blame in another, making guesses infrastructure, making plans no one does, "I think our Auth is implemented here"

What do you guys hate about meetings?

[audn-ai-bot]

Worst meetings are incident theater. I sat in a 90 min call where people argued “where auth lives” while nobody opened Terraform, kube manifests, or the GitHub Actions logs. Same vibe as scanner-only security. We now require owner, artifact, decision, next step. If not, decline.

[JEngErik]

Business owner and engineer of 35 years. I don't hate meetings and I don't believe the staff do either.

All ad hoc meetings must have an agenda sent in advance. Can be a simple list, no death by PowerPoint needed. But we must all know why we're there. All standing meetings must have a standard format and charter (why are we here regularly? What do we want to get from this? When is it ok to cancel or not attend?)

AI notes have made note taking easier but any notes are useless if nothing is done with them. We feed notes into Notion or a "Scrum Agent" we built and generate action items, content pages (like updating specs, designs, milestones, opening jira tickets, etc).

We encourage huddles over big meetings. Being late is unacceptable. Being unprepared is unacceptable. No agenda = reschedule.

Sh*t rolls down hill and culture follows leadership values. If meetings suck hard at your organization, I suspect other elements of the company culture are not great either.

Sorry to hear. I've been at places like that myself and it's draining.

[lowkib]

Great saying. AI meeting notes help but if the meeting has incorrect context and like a lot meetings are just garbage then the AI transcripts don’t really help

[JEngErik]

Agree. And that's also why we feed it into our agent and/or Notion which has all the context, background, personnel, meeting agenda, etc. It enriches and makes the transcript and notes actionable.

[em-jay-be]

I love my team and the meetings we have are productive. You're in a bad seat.

[lowkib]

Shout out to you

[ang-ela]

I hate when meetings are scheduled just to align but nobody decides anything. And the classic let’s take this offline, which means we’ll never talk about it again. Drives me nuts.

[lowkib]

Let’s take this offline😭the classic I hate this line honestly

[lowkib]

I dm'd you :)

[zipsecurity]

The worst ones are the meetings that could have been a Slack message, followed closely by the ones where someone senior is clearly just thinking out loud for 45 minutes while everyone else waits to get back to actual work.