Customer Success built an AI compliance checker nobody verified

“We can always rebuild it.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Officially because the budget expires on Friday. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Olivier, an intern

Build time:

1 hours 10 minutes

Built with:

an Electron app wrapping a website

Database:

a Git repository with one JSON file per customer

Authentication:

the service account has global admin, just in case

Deployment:

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

Responsible:

Marketing Manager, who calls it "the little tool"

Documentation:

a README that begins with "temporary notes"

Security situation:

the temporary firewall rule is 16 months old

Future disaster:

It will still be running in 2031.

Age: 5.1 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €702k per year, alive 89x longer than intended, 33 users.