The SAP Team built a vendor contract tracker

“It's just a form.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Allegedly because the correct dropdown option is "Other". Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Lukas, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

three AI coding tools arguing through the same repository

Database:

an S3 bucket called app_db-new with public access "temporarily" enabled

Authentication:

the encryption key is in the source code

Deployment:

running in Kubernetes with one pod and no reason

Responsible:

Marco, who inherited it from Lukas by accident

Documentation:

an architecture diagram containing a box labelled "magic happens here"

Security situation:

the service account is also a real employee

Future disaster:

It will cause Finance to ask "what is this charge?".

Age: 6.8 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 1115 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 125 users, 3 accidental connections, alive 356x longer than intended.