Comment by mediaman
2 days ago
Meeting notes are useful in two ways, for me:
- I'm reviewing the last meeting of a regular meeting cadence to see what we need to discuss.
- I put it in a lookup (vector store, whatever) so I can do things like "what was the thing customer xyz said they needed to integrate against".
Those are pretty useful. But I don't usually read the whole meeting notes.
I think this is probably more broadly true too. AI can generate far more text than we can process, and text treatises on what an AI was prompted to say is pretty useless. But generating text not with the purpose of presenting it to the user but as a cold store of information that can be paired with good retrieval can be pretty useful.
Im in a large company, sometimes we have long incident meetings running for hours and new idiots join in the middle "what happened?". Now at least we can get summaries of the past hours during the meeting to catch up without bothering everyone !
I'm aware this idealistic, but I would suggest simply not doing that. Don't have hours long meetings with people joining midway through.
Seems very idealistic :)
I think this is about when the app is broken and people are keeping a meeting app open to communicate with each other as they scramble to fix things.
So the limitation here is more about problems not being solved yet rather than how a 'meeting' is organized.