Field Service built a vendor onboarding portal

“It's not customer-facing.”— Marco, Field Service

Reason:

Mainly because the ticket has been open for 209 days. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Marco, an analyst

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

a network drive mapped as Z: on three people's computers

Authentication:

the security model is "Google probably handles that"

Deployment:

hosted on Chen's personal Vercel account

Responsible:

Lukas, because they clicked "create project" first

Documentation:

comments in the code, in a second language

Security situation:

the encryption key is in the source code

Future disaster:

It will fill the disk at 09:47.

Age: 256 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 256 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 39% chance of becoming business critical, 2 accidental connections, alive 12x longer than intended.