Reception built a gift and hospitality register

“Claude wrote most of it.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Allegedly because the workshop produced a Miro board with 149 sticky notes. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Marco, an intern

Build time:

9 evenings

Built with:

Streamlit, somehow now in production

Database:

41,633 XML files

Authentication:

the incident response plan is "call personName"

Deployment:

deployed straight to production on a Thursday, no staging

Responsible:

Kevin, who insists they are not the owner

Documentation:

none whatsoever

Security situation:

rate limiting consists of hoping nobody notices

Future disaster:

It will be described as "legacy" before its first birthday.

Age: 5.5 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 436 users, alive 144x longer than intended, 3 departments depend on it.