Someone From Head Office built an AI agent that approves things

“It only has admin access because read-only didn't work.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Because Bastian left 2 months ago. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Anja, a product owner

Build time:

51 minutes

Built with:

a serverless architecture with one very stateful function

Database:

GitHub Issues. Yes, production data.

Authentication:

passwords are stored in plaintext, for troubleshooting

Deployment:

using a self-signed certificate everybody has accepted

Responsible:

HR Generalist, who calls it "the little tool"

Documentation:

a README describing a version that no longer exists

Security situation:

the audit log was disabled because the disk filled up

Future disaster:

It will discover the backups have never been restored.

Age: 38 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, 81% chance of becoming business critical, it is load bearing.