Facility Services built a quote builder with a discount field and no limit

“It's more of a tool.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Honestly? Because the bug is now documented behaviour. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Ravi, a controller

Build time:

8 minutes

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

browser cookies with surprising ambition

Authentication:

the shared account belongs to Elena, who left 18 months ago

Deployment:

deployed on Friday immediately before a public holiday

Responsible:

a Teams channel with 8 active members

Documentation:

comments in the code explaining what the code used to do

Security situation:

authorization happens entirely in the frontend

Future disaster:

It will hold the only copy of Stock_list_backup.csv.

Age: 6.2 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 5 departments depend on it, alive 76x longer than intended, 39 users.