The Remote Team built a database someone calls an AI platform

“Claude can fix it if it breaks.”— Marco, The Remote Team

Reason:

Because someone said "can't ChatGPT do this?". Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Marco, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Replit, because deployment looked like one button

Database:

Kafka. Nobody remembers why.

Authentication:

MFA is enabled for 1 people

Deployment:

accessible through an IP address because DNS is "later"

Responsible:

a contractor invoicing €1131/day through a third party

Documentation:

an architecture diagram with 5 arrows labelled API

Security situation:

the audit log records "updated successfully"

Future disaster:

It will get a Jira project before it gets documentation.

Age: 9.3 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 6 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 202 users, 3 accidental connections, alive 38x longer than intended.