The New Guy built a customer health score with a formula in a comment

“We'll replace it next year.”— Marco, The New Guy

Reason:

Allegedly because someone said "can't ChatGPT do this?". Quietly rolled out to five countries.

Built by:

Marco, a working student

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a folder called DO_NOT_DELETE_OLD

Authentication:

the secret is in the screenshot in the README

Deployment:

running on port 8080 in production

Responsible:

Bastian, according to Jira

Documentation:

two architecture diagrams that disagree

Security situation:

the session never expires

Future disaster:

It will become a works council agenda item.

Age: 8.8 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 6 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 1276 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 230x longer than intended, the builder has left, 23 users.