Why Daily Standups Are Becoming Useless in the AI...

Daily standups were supposed to improve coordination. In practice, they often became a ritual that burns engineering time without giving much back. The old 15-minute promise sounds harmless, but in most real teams it becomes 30 minutes, 1 hour, or even 1 hour 30 minutes once the conversation starts and people wait their turn. Strictly speaking, "daily" is the cadence and "standup" is the ceremony. In practice, people just use "daily" as shorthand for the meeting itself. That is where the math ge