Manufacturing built a preventive maintenance calendar

“We can always rebuild it.”— Kevin, Manufacturing

Reason:

Mainly because the mandatory field is documented as optional. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Kevin, someone from Procurement

Build time:

4 evenings

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

a backup drive that has not been plugged in for 2 months

Authentication:

security by obscurity, but without much obscurity

Deployment:

running from an image tagged latest

Responsible:

nobody officially, Petra emotionally

Documentation:

a folder called Documentation containing another folder called Old

Security situation:

the incident response plan starts with "call Chen"

Future disaster:

It will process the same invoice 2 times.

Age: 15 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 15 days ago · original builder left 32 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €516k per year, 118 users, 3 departments depend on it.