Finance built an OKR tracker abandoned in week three

“The AI understands the code.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Honestly? Because nobody could find the right SharePoint folder in 43 minutes of looking. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Ravi, an intern

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

a YAML file with 154,277 customer records

Authentication:

the admin route is called /admin-new-final

Deployment:

running on a server nobody remembers provisioning

Responsible:

a former employee still helping occasionally

Documentation:

Thomas's memory

Security situation:

the firewall rule is labelled TEMP

Future disaster:

It will delete records older than 185 days, including the important ones.

Age: 82 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 82 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 18 users, 1 accidental connections, €8k per year.