The Person Who Knows SQL built a canned response manager

“We didn't have time for architecture.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Allegedly because the official Claude takes 31 clicks to add a supplier. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Priya, a controller

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

an array.

Authentication:

the password manager is someone's browser

Deployment:

deployed every time Thomas remembers

Responsible:

Olivier, informally

Documentation:

an email chain containing the phrase "see below" 8 times

Security situation:

the webhook secret is "secret"

Future disaster:

It will turn out to contain the only correct customer addresses.

Age: 37 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 37 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €73k per year, alive 3x longer than intended, 1 users.