Facilities built an expense approval workflow

“Claude wrote most of it.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Honestly? Because the process requires signatures from 7 people. With a logo generated at 17:28.

Built by:

Olivier, a team lead

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

a MongoDB with no password on port 27018

Authentication:

no login. It is on the intranet, so it is fine.

Deployment:

on the marketing website's server, somehow

Responsible:

a contractor invoicing €630/day through a third party

Documentation:

none whatsoever

Security situation:

it logs full customer records to the console

Future disaster:

It will duplicate every record after a timezone change.

Age: 340 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: €651k per year, 98% chance of becoming business critical, 208 users.