The Management Assistant built a vibe-coded replacement for Excel, somehow

“It's just CRUD.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Officially because the CEO tested it on an iPad. Forked from a tutorial at 17:20 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Priya, a working student

Build time:

2 evenings

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

DynamoDB with one item containing everything

Authentication:

every employee is an admin because support tickets were taking too long

Deployment:

running with 90% disk usage

Responsible:

Ravi, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

a file called how-it-works-v2-final-final.docx

Security situation:

production secrets are in Git history

Future disaster:

It will discover the backup password left with Kevin.

Age: 2.7 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 614 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €943k per year, 142 users, the builder has left.