Someone From Operations built a pricing calculator

“It's only 800 lines.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Officially because Sales has a newer spreadsheet. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Elena, someone from Procurement

Build time:

5 hours 13 minutes

Built with:

Claude, and no idea about coding

Database:

a folder called DO_NOT_DELETE_OLD

Authentication:

there is one account called "admin" and nobody knows who owns it

Deployment:

deployed behind a Cloudflare Tunnel from Priya's laptop

Responsible:

Sofia and Ravi, who each think the other owns it

Documentation:

a Loom video nobody can find

Security situation:

the threat model is "why would anyone attack us?"

Future disaster:

It will discover there are no backups.

Age: 4.9 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 46% chance of becoming business critical, alive 257x longer than intended, €100k per year.