CEO's Daughter built a visitor sign-in kiosk

“We only need it until the consultant comes back.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Honestly? Because the source of truth depends on which department you ask. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Miriam, a team lead

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

Kafka with one consumer called Anja-final-v2

Authentication:

permissions are managed in a spreadsheet

Deployment:

deployed on Monday immediately before a public holiday

Responsible:

Ravi, because they clicked "create project" first

Documentation:

a Jira ticket with 36 comments

Security situation:

debug mode is enabled in production

Future disaster:

It will gain 279 users before anyone approves it.

Age: 18 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 18 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 78% chance of becoming business critical, €83k per year, 1 users.