Can Grok Bot take over the standup nobody attends?
Hand it over and walk away. You stay out of it.
- Costs you
- 15 minutes a day per person, and everyone resents it
- Who runs it
- The bot
- Category
- Automation
The daily standup exists to answer one question: what moved yesterday. That answer is already sitting in your git history, your issue tracker and your calendar · the meeting is just people reading it aloud badly. A bot can assemble it from the sources and post it before anyone logs on. This is the one on the list that most clearly replaces a meeting rather than a tool, which makes it the highest-value hour on the page. Where it can't help: the standup is also where someone says 'I'm stuck', and a commit log never says that.
The prompt
Written for a bot that already has a browser, a terminal and your logins · paste it in whole.
Post the standup so nobody has to attend one. Use my GitHub and calendar. Ask me which repos and which people first. Every weekday at 9: - What merged yesterday, per person, in plain language · not commit messages verbatim. - What's open and has moved. - What's open and hasn't moved for three days or more. This is the useful bit. - Anything shipping today, from the calendar. Post it to #standup as one message. Shortest useful form · if it's longer than a screen, cut the detail, not the stalled items. Tone and honesty: - Never editorialise about who did or didn't do much. Report what happened. - 'No merges yesterday' is a fine thing to post. Don't pad a quiet day. - Never guess what someone is working on from an issue assignment. Only report what actually changed. Once it's running, add one line at the end: 'Blocked? Reply in thread.' The bot can't know who's stuck · people still have to say.
The bot will need to sign into: github · google-calendar · slack
What you lose
- the bit where someone admits they're blocked · a commit log never says that
- the social contact, which for a remote team is not nothing
- a reason to be at your desk at 9:30
What it costs you now
15 minutes a day per person, and everyone resents it