Business Process Management built an email attachment processor

“The AI understands the code.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Because the Miro board is now the documentation. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 623 days ago.

Built by:

Ravi, the management assistant

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

no database, it is a spreadsheet

Authentication:

the encryption key is in the source code

Deployment:

running with 95% memory usage and "seems fine"

Responsible:

Tobias, who insists they are not the owner

Documentation:

a spreadsheet cell containing "ask Elena"

Security situation:

the API key has never been rotated

Future disaster:

It will acquire its own workaround.

Age: 7.9 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 4 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 463 users, alive 205x longer than intended, older than the department using it.