Two People From Sales built a tool checkout system

“It's just an Excel replacement.”— Miriam, Two People From Sales

Reason:

Officially because the process owner is Ravi, who has never used the time tracking system. With 838 users and 32 feature requests.

Built by:

Miriam, a controller

Build time:

8 evenings

Built with:

Claude Code on the production branch

Database:

a database view called final-final-really-final_FINAL_FINAL

Authentication:

permissions are checked by asking "should this person be here?"

Deployment:

deployed from Chen's laptop

Responsible:

Chen, who inherited it from Miriam by accident

Documentation:

comments in the code explaining what the code used to do

Security situation:

CSRF protection was temporarily disabled

Future disaster:

It will email customer data to a market you do not operate in.

Age: 3.0 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 195 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 93% chance of becoming business critical, 4 accidental connections, alive 78x longer than intended.