Supply Chain built a temporary migration helper

“Nobody knows the URL.”— Miriam, Supply Chain

Reason:

Mainly because two teams disagreed about a column name for 6 weeks. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Miriam, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

2 hours 19 minutes

Built with:

three AI coding tools arguing through the same repository

Database:

Redis with persistence disabled because "it is only a cache"

Authentication:

security by obscurity, but without much obscurity

Deployment:

running on Ubuntu 20.04 and nobody wants to upgrade it

Responsible:

the person sitting closest to the printer

Documentation:

three different architecture diagrams

Security situation:

security is handled by a checkbox called admin

Future disaster:

It will be used for payroll by accident.

Age: 3.5 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 43x longer than intended, 12 users, €890 per year.