R&D built a customer health score with a formula in a comment

“We'll add monitoring later.”— Miriam, R&D

Reason:

Allegedly because Kevin left 6 months ago. Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Miriam, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

51 minutes

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

a database running in a container called final-final-db

Authentication:

the user ID is a query parameter

Deployment:

running with 92% memory usage and "seems fine"

Responsible:

whoever answers the support email

Documentation:

a folder called Documentation containing another folder called Old

Security situation:

the database is reachable from the public internet

Future disaster:

It will be presented at a conference as a success story.

Age: 1.2 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 151 users, alive 31x longer than intended, €12k per year.