The Management Assistant built a customer portal

“The AI understands the code.”— Chen, The Management Assistant

Reason:

Honestly? Because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "manual step". With 113 users and 25 feature requests.

Built by:

Chen, a product owner

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

a SharePoint list with 145,745 items

Authentication:

the role is stored in localStorage

Deployment:

behind a domain registered for €12 during a workshop

Responsible:

Bastian, according to nobody except Thomas

Documentation:

a Slack message saying "I'll document this later"

Security situation:

the security review consisted of opening DevTools

Future disaster:

It will be presented to management as evidence that shadow IT must stop.

Age: 4.9 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 4 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 463 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 84x longer than intended, 2 accidental connections, nobody owns it.