Procurement built an asset register for 400 laptops

“We'll add monitoring later.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Officially because someone built a prototype during lunch. Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Daniel, an intern

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

a column called misc2 because misc was already taken

Authentication:

permissions are managed by copying another user's account

Deployment:

behind a domain that still contains the word test

Responsible:

a former employee still helping occasionally

Documentation:

a Slack thread from May

Security situation:

MFA was disabled after somebody lost their phone

Future disaster:

It will discover its own timezone policy in production.

Age: 1.8 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €261k per year, alive 46x longer than intended, 26% chance of becoming business critical.