Dog Shelter Team built a key checkout register

“The budget expires this week.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Officially because the bug is now documented behaviour. With 1800 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Chen, an intern

Build time:

4 evenings

Built with:

GraphQL, for three fields

Database:

a vector database because somebody said RAG

Authentication:

permissions are checked by asking "should this person be here?"

Deployment:

deployed by emailing Suppliers_FIXED.csv to Olivier

Responsible:

an external agency with no contract on file

Documentation:

none whatsoever

Security situation:

the security review consisted of opening DevTools

Future disaster:

It will discover the backups have never been restored.

Age: 1.8 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 444 days ago

Rated common mostly because: nobody owns it, alive 21x longer than intended, €33k per year.