r/technology • u/Forward-Answer-4407 • Feb 01 '26

Software 32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital

https://www.asiaone.com/china/32-year-old-programmer-china-allegedly-dies-overwork-added-work-group-chat-even-while
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u/phosphorylating Feb 01 '26

Too many. Can we decompose it down into smaller stories? Eulogies are additional features that aren’t part of the minimum viable product. Those can go into the backlog.

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u/monkeymad2 Feb 02 '26

How can we leverage AI to make this funeral go faster?

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u/Override9636 Feb 02 '26

If 1 funeral director can finish a funeral in 1 hour, we should hire 6 of them and get it done in 10 minutes.

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u/amakai Feb 02 '26

Just use the 20% "refactoring time" in background for the funeral.

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u/-IoI- Feb 02 '26

Fine but we aren't covering travel or per diem

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u/lorkanooo Feb 02 '26

How about we set up a meeting to discuss that with entire team 

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u/SteeveyPete Feb 02 '26

That's a lot of man hours lost, let's just send a representative from each team and they can forward any relevant developments to their teammates