Finance built a meeting room booking system

“It's on a weird port.”— Kevin, Finance

Reason:

Because the form contains 56 fields and 5 of them are called "Other". With 111 users and 28 feature requests.

Built by:

Kevin, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

1 hours 22 minutes

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

a production snapshot from March because restore testing felt risky

Authentication:

the security contact is whoever notices first

Deployment:

deployed by dragging files into an FTP client

Responsible:

IT, according to Finance

Documentation:

a Miro board with 130 sticky notes

Security situation:

the pentest report is still marked draft

Future disaster:

It will fail exactly when Jens is on holiday.

Age: 4.0 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 4 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 209x longer than intended, €93k per year, 2 accidental connections.