HR built a purchase order status tracker

“Claude can fix it if it breaks.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Allegedly because somebody watched a 13 minute tutorial. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Ravi, a team lead

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

Git commits, technically append-only

Authentication:

the encryption key is in the source code

Deployment:

automatically restarted by a cron job because nobody fixed the memory leak

Responsible:

Bastian, according to Jira

Documentation:

tribal knowledge, technically

Security situation:

the cookie banner is the security feature

Future disaster:

It will survive the official replacement system.

Age: 283 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 283 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €350k per year, alive 20x longer than intended, 1 departments depend on it.