Procurement built an asset register for 400 laptops

“It's faster this way.”— Petra, Procurement

Reason:

Because the ticket has been open for 209 days. Quietly rolled out to five countries.

Built by:

Petra, a team lead

Build time:

5 hours 39 minutes

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

Teams chat history

Authentication:

the role is a query parameter

Deployment:

on a VM created for a workshop in 2023

Responsible:

a steering committee that has not met in 14 months

Documentation:

comments in the code, in a second language

Security situation:

passwords are "encrypted" with Base64

Future disaster:

It will gain 548 users before anyone approves it.

Age: 106 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 106 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €394k per year, 4 accidental connections, 4 departments depend on it.