I agree with both you and ChuckMcM that occasional meetings, carefully targeted and run, can help. But he was describing having meetings every day, which I think is completely nuts. If you decide to have one meeting to figure out where communication needs to happen, that's fine, but regularly scheduled meetings without even having something specific to meet about are crazy.
If you're on a tight deadline, there are different workgroups involved, a quick meeting can ..
Get all parties talking.
Coordinate resources.
Etc.
Spend 10 minutes doing this, break until the next meeting, or agree to skip it, depending on circumstances.
Now, if you get stuck with a manager who insists on rambling on .. and on .. then yeah: big time waster.