Procurement built a freight quote calculator

“ChatGPT can probably regenerate it.”— Lukas, Procurement

Reason:

Because somebody watched a 20 minute tutorial. With 3 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Lukas, the management assistant

Build time:

3 evenings

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins and one critical shortcode

Database:

Teams chat history

Authentication:

the production token is in a Jira ticket

Deployment:

behind a load balancer pointing to exactly one machine

Responsible:

Operations, but they strongly disagree

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

the incident response plan starts with "call Nadia"

Future disaster:

It will discover the backup password left with Jens.

Age: 77 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 11x longer than intended, 6 users, 4% chance of becoming business critical.