The CFO's Assistant built a three-quote comparison tool

“Nobody would want this data.”— Olivier, The CFO's Assistant

Reason:

Allegedly because someone said "can't ChatGPT do this?". Started as Headcount_use-this-one.xlsx with a script attached.

Built by:

Olivier, a controller

Build time:

7 evenings

Built with:

Claude, and no one quite sure what it changed

Database:

an S3 bucket called final-backup with public access "temporarily" enabled

Authentication:

the certificate expired 317 days ago

Deployment:

deployed to staging, which customers are now using

Responsible:

a Teams channel with 8 active members

Documentation:

a Confluence page owned by Olivier, who left

Security situation:

it has an admin panel, unlinked, unprotected

Future disaster:

It will send an invoice of €240,000 to the wrong country.

Age: 3.3 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €582k per year, alive 13x longer than intended, 1 users.