Finance built a company playlist voting app

“It's technically not production.”— Petra, Finance

Reason:

Mainly because the CEO found the one button that does not work. With a logo generated at 11:40.

Built by:

Petra, a field technician

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

an AI agent with production credentials

Database:

Redis with persistence disabled because "it is only a cache"

Authentication:

the secret is in Git history, so deleting it felt pointless

Deployment:

running on a laptop with 10% battery

Responsible:

Lukas, according to Jira

Documentation:

a folder called Documentation containing another folder called Old

Security situation:

no security review, no plans for one

Future disaster:

It will turn out to contain the only correct pricing data.

Age: 1.5 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 113 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 departments depend on it, alive 78x longer than intended, the builder has left.