No, good designers design good software. You aren't going to get good software with or without meetings if people making the software don't have the skills to d

No, good designers design good software. You aren't going to get good software with or without meetings if people making the software don't have the skills to do it. Garbage in, garbage out. Diving deep in code is an expensive way to find that out. I've also never met a good designer that just jumped in code without knowing the domain. Sometimes that requires them, gasp, meeting with people first to learn about the domain. But yes, most meetings are terrible, but you can't always know that ahead of time. Elon Musk is a perfect example of someone jumping head first without knowing to fill the pool first. Some of their production problems have been solved by other manufacturers a hundred years ago.