CEO's Daughter built a contract deadline reminder bot

“It's not customer-facing.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Mainly because the temporary solution has survived 4 managers. Built in one weekend and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Bastian, a key account manager

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

DynamoDB with one item containing everything

Authentication:

a URL 83 characters long, which counts as security

Deployment:

hosted on the demo environment, permanently

Responsible:

a project group that technically no longer exists

Documentation:

a file called README-NEW-FINAL.md

Security situation:

it stores passwords, hashed with nothing

Future disaster:

It will acquire a workaround for the workaround.

Age: 94 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 94 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 1 accidental connections, alive 4x longer than intended, 9% chance of becoming business critical.