The Person Who Once Used Python built a warehouse stock counter

“Everyone using it is trustworthy.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Honestly? Because the API documentation says "ask Petra". Already exported 119,184 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Ravi, a product owner

Build time:

6 evenings

Built with:

a Teams bot nobody remembers installing

Database:

a vector database because somebody said RAG

Authentication:

the audit log records "something changed"

Deployment:

using a self-signed certificate everybody has accepted

Responsible:

whoever still has the admin password

Documentation:

an onboarding call everyone is expected to remember

Security situation:

the pentest report is still marked draft

Future disaster:

It will be described as "legacy" before its first birthday.

Age: 4.0 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 6 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €324k per year, alive 49x longer than intended, 1 users.