Procurement built an invoice matcher

“IT would have taken months.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Because the Miro board is now the documentation. With 40 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Anja, a recruiter

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a vector database containing invoices for reasons

Authentication:

the production server is reachable from the guest Wi-Fi

Deployment:

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

Responsible:

an intern whose contract ended in April

Documentation:

a Teams recording nobody has permission to open

Security situation:

a security review was scheduled for July and quietly cancelled

Future disaster:

It will discover there are no backups.

Age: 21 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 21 days ago · original builder left 51 days ago

Rated common mostly because: the builder has left, 2 users.