Operations built a performance review form

“We can always rebuild it.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Allegedly because the mandatory field is documented as optional. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Nadia, a controller

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Claude, and no idea about coding

Database:

Neo4j because someone drew arrows on a whiteboard

Authentication:

authorization is handled in the UI

Deployment:

hosted on a server shared with 7 unrelated applications

Responsible:

Finance, apparently

Documentation:

none, but the variable names are "pretty clear"

Security situation:

the firewall rule is 0.0.0.0/0

Future disaster:

It will accidentally CC 187 people.

Age: 70 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 518 users, alive 5x longer than intended, 1 departments depend on it.