Sales built an approval chain with one approver

“Claude wrote most of it.”— Tobias, Sales

Reason:

Honestly? Because the workaround has its own workaround. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Tobias, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

8 evenings

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

a Git repository with one JSON file per customer

Authentication:

the security review was postponed until after launch

Deployment:

running on localhost through a tunnel

Responsible:

Kevin, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

a Confluence page copied from another project

Security situation:

the API key has never been rotated

Future disaster:

It will get rewritten, producing exactly the same system.

Age: 8.5 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 4 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 1239 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: €1.6m per year, 202 users, alive 35x longer than intended.