Dog Shelter Team built a meeting room booking system

“The AI understands the code.”— Anja, Dog Shelter Team

Reason:

Because the test account belongs to Ravi from an intern. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Anja, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

a table called temp that has existed for 7 years

Authentication:

the encryption key is in the source code

Deployment:

deployed into production because staging was broken

Responsible:

IT, according to Finance

Documentation:

an onboarding call everyone is expected to remember

Security situation:

the incident response plan starts with "call Kevin"

Future disaster:

It will process the same invoice 4 times.

Age: 1.6 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 576 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 327 users, 40% chance of becoming business critical, alive 82x longer than intended.