Maintenance built a pricing exception tracker

“We didn't have time for a ticket.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Because the dashboard is updated manually every Sunday. Built in 3 evenings and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Anja, someone from Procurement

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Cursor, with YOLO mode emotionally enabled

Database:

a Git repository with one JSON file per customer

Authentication:

the password manager is memory

Deployment:

deployed manually because CI/CD "was taking too long"

Responsible:

"digital transformation"

Documentation:

two architecture diagrams that disagree

Security situation:

security is handled by keeping the URL secret

Future disaster:

It will duplicate every record after a timezone change.

Age: 2.6 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 16x longer than intended, 1 accidental connections, 1 users.