The Person Who Knows SQL built a meeting room booking tool

“It's only temporary.”— Miriam, The Person Who Knows SQL

Reason:

Allegedly because the dropdown contains 130 options. With 632 users and 40 feature requests.

Built by:

Miriam, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

51 minutes

Built with:

an AI agent with production credentials

Database:

Airtable on Miriam's personal plan

Authentication:

everyone uses the admin account

Deployment:

deployed manually because CI/CD "was taking too long"

Responsible:

Finance, apparently

Documentation:

a Confluence page owned by Elena, who left

Security situation:

debug mode is enabled in production

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by a second version of itself.

Age: 1.5 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 553 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 40x longer than intended, 2 departments depend on it, €19k per year.