[ibudiallo]

... as part of the bankruptcy proceedings they sold the technology to a bigger company. A developer improved the application by automating it. It could now send emails to the right departments automatically. The developer entered his own email as a test and was promptly fired by the new software.

Everyone who worked on the machine are now gone, yet it continues to do what it was designed for. That is until I found myself on the path of the machine...

Just kidding, but it would make a great origin story to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17350645