The Factory Floor built Excel, but in React

“We'll document it after the quarter.”— Thomas, The Factory Floor

Reason:

Officially because the dashboard disagrees with Finance by €14,000. Quietly rolled out to five countries.

Built by:

Thomas, an intern

Build time:

8 minutes

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

the production database, directly, with write access

Authentication:

the temporary firewall rule has existed for 7 months

Deployment:

running on port 9000 in production

Responsible:

Miriam, who has not touched it in 9 months

Documentation:

a Slack message saying "I'll document this later"

Security situation:

the audit log was disabled because the disk filled up

Future disaster:

It will acquire its own workaround.

Age: 68 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 68 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €276k per year, direct production access, 2 departments depend on it.