Administration built a form that emails another form

“Claude can fix it if it breaks.”— Petra, Administration

Reason:

Because the printer is somehow involved. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Petra, a field technician

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a JSON file in production

Authentication:

the password hint contains the password

Deployment:

running from an image tagged latest

Responsible:

a team that has since been reorganised

Documentation:

a Teams recording nobody has permission to open

Security situation:

every error response includes the full stack trace

Future disaster:

It will be used for payroll by accident.

Age: 6.6 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 3 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 800 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 586 users, 98% chance of becoming business critical, 2 accidental connections.