Revenue Operations built a vibe-coded replacement for Jira

“We only need it for this quarter.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Officially because the approval chain includes 4 people and one shared mailbox. Built in 51 minutes and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Nadia, an intern

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a Notion database with increasingly ambitious automations

Database:

two databases kept "mostly in sync"

Authentication:

the demo account has production access

Deployment:

restarted manually every Friday

Responsible:

Kevin, according to nobody except Sofia

Documentation:

a file called README-NEW-FINAL.md

Security situation:

production secrets are in .env.example

Future disaster:

It will gain 263 users before anyone approves it.

Age: 15 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 56 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 88% chance of becoming business critical, 5 departments depend on it, nobody owns it.