Corporate Security built a vibe-coded replacement for Workday

“IT would have taken months.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Honestly? Because the integration works unless it is Wednesday. Forked from a tutorial at 11:33 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Bastian, a field technician

Build time:

5 evenings

Built with:

an internal API copied from a Stack Overflow answer

Database:

a network drive mapped as Z: on three people's computers

Authentication:

the API key has existed since the prototype

Deployment:

kept alive by a scheduled task every 9 minutes

Responsible:

a contractor invoicing €1387/day through a third party

Documentation:

comments in the code explaining what the code used to do

Security situation:

IT was informed. IT has chosen peace.

Future disaster:

It will be discovered during due diligence.

Age: 5.3 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 83% chance of becoming business critical, 3 departments depend on it, 45 users.