An intern built a performance review form

“Sales already promised it.”— Chen, An intern

Reason:

Honestly? Because the workshop produced a Miro board with 87 sticky notes. Forked from a tutorial at 08:46 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Chen, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

the production database, directly, with write access

Authentication:

an API key in the frontend bundle

Deployment:

sharing a reverse proxy with the company Christmas raffle

Responsible:

whoever still has the admin password

Documentation:

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

Security situation:

the API key is shared by 12 applications

Future disaster:

It will get an SLA before it gets a test suite.

Age: 5.1 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 265x longer than intended, direct production access, older than the department using it.