Finance built a lead scoring system

“We'll tell IT once it works.”— Miriam, Finance

Reason:

Mainly because the process owner is Anja, who has never used the travel portal. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Miriam, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

2 evenings

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

one table with 203 columns

Authentication:

backups are encrypted with the same password as production

Deployment:

running on an EC2 instance somebody resized manually

Responsible:

nobody. It has no owner.

Documentation:

comments that say "do not change this"

Security situation:

production secrets are in Git history

Future disaster:

It will become business critical in 10 months.

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 12 days ago · original builder left 56 days ago

Rated mythic mostly because: €2.2m per year, 466 users, 5 accidental connections.