The Remote Team built a PTO approval app

“The business needed it yesterday.”— Tobias, The Remote Team

Reason:

Mainly because the workflow has 82 steps and nobody wants to open it. Built in one weekend and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Tobias, a team lead

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

passwords stored in a column called password

Authentication:

the backend trusts whatever role the frontend sends

Deployment:

running in Kubernetes with one pod and no reason

Responsible:

"digital transformation"

Documentation:

a folder called OLD_DO_NOT_USE containing the current documentation

Security situation:

the certificate expired 141 days ago

Future disaster:

It will be used for payroll by accident.

Age: 1.7 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 88x longer than intended, €74k per year, 1 departments depend on it.