Quality Assurance built a warehouse label printer web app

“We'll add SSO later.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Officially because the integration works unless it is Friday. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Chen, a recruiter

Build time:

51 minutes

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

a production table with no primary key

Authentication:

"auth is on the roadmap" — has been for 411 days

Deployment:

deployed into production because staging was broken

Responsible:

a team that has since been reorganised

Documentation:

a Jira ticket with 25 comments

Security situation:

MFA was disabled after somebody lost their phone

Future disaster:

It will delete records older than 219 days, including the important ones.

Age: 7.0 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 6 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 717 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 354 users, 4 accidental connections, 30% chance of becoming business critical.