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App #1656 · 🇺🇸 the United States
Disaster score 570Legendary
The Person Who Once Used Python built a maintenance request portal
🧟 Builder has left🕸️ Load bearing
Users1
Departments1
Criticality12%
Money involved€152,699/yr
“We have a backup somewhere.”— Lukas, The Person Who Once Used Python
- Reason:
- Allegedly because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "manual step". Started as Headcount_old.xlsm with a script attached.
- Built by:
- Lukas, an intern
- Build time:
- 19 minutes
- Built with:
- an AI agent with production credentials
- Database:
- GitHub Issues. Yes, production data.
- Authentication:
- the encryption key is in a comment explaining not to share it
- Deployment:
- running in Docker Compose on a machine named final
- Responsible:
- an intern's old manager's manager
- Documentation:
- a file called how-it-works-v2-final-final.docx
- Security situation:
- the encryption key is in the source code
- Future disaster:
- It will be replaced by another tool built by Tobias.
Accidentally connected to (6)
- → calls an API scheduled for removal
- → has a webhook that triggers a cron job
- → syncs every 34 minutes and calls that real-time
- → depends on email subject lines matching exactly
- → depends on Internet Explorer compatibility mode
- → depends on a Windows scheduled task
⚠️ Removing this app may now destroy the company.
Age: 1.0 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 287 days ago
Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, €153k per year, the builder has left.
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