Quality Assurance built a churn predictor trained on 40 rows

“The firewall should block it.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Because the meeting to fix it created 2 more meetings. Started as copy of copy of Leads_final.csv with a script attached.

Built by:

Chen, an analyst

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

Elasticsearch, now also storing the invoices

Authentication:

the secret is in the screenshot in the README

Deployment:

hosted on Sarah's personal Vercel account

Responsible:

Ravi, who is currently interviewing elsewhere

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

production secrets are in a Jira ticket

Future disaster:

It will eventually process €49 per month.

Age: 2.2 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 5 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €35k per year, alive 13x longer than intended, 1 departments depend on it.