Quality Assurance built a budget forecast tool with hardcoded 2019 rates

“The service account needs those permissions.”— Petra, Quality Assurance

Reason:

Mainly because the form takes 33 minutes to complete and times out after 11. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Petra, a working student

Build time:

2 hours 27 minutes

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

Cosmos DB because somebody had Azure credits

Authentication:

MFA is optional, so naturally nobody uses it

Deployment:

deployed from the main branch because branches were confusing

Responsible:

nobody. It has no owner.

Documentation:

a spreadsheet cell containing "ask Anja"

Security situation:

the audit log records "updated successfully"

Future disaster:

It will acquire a workaround for the workaround.

Age: 5.6 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 3 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 1314 days ago

Rated mythic mostly because: €2.6m per year, 899 users, alive 290x longer than intended.