A lot of the meetings on my calendar today seem to exist to gather something. Get everyone’s status so the group can align. Articulate two options side by side to compare. Create a report for the people who weren’t in the room. In each case, we (humans) are moving information from one place to another.

Most of that can be a prompt right now. The context is already there: in docs, threads, and trackers, a model can read all of it, and what used to take a room full of people and an hour now takes a good question and a few minutes.

After building software for a while now, the pattern feels familiar to me. When a capability arrives before its integrations do, people become the integration layer. We were the glue for early web services too, and glue work tends to stay invisible until it starts to eat your calendar.

I think this is good news though. Every tech worker should now ask themselves before starting a task: can I hand this to AI? Moving information around is exactly where the answer is often yes. A meeting that could have been a prompt points at work worth deferring, and each time we identify one, we win some time back for decisions or conversations that need people.

For teams, it could be useful to adopt a habit to look at the recurring gatherings, the weekly syncs, the comparison docs, the status reports, and ask which ones are only moving information around. Some deserve glue between systems. Some can become a prompt anyone runs when they need it. A few meetings might stay because the conversation is the point, and those get better when everyone can focus on what’s important.