Procurement built a parking space allocation app

“Claude wrote most of it.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Allegedly because the licence costs €799 per year, per seat. With 94 users and 85 feature requests.

Built by:

Priya, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

4 hours 15 minutes

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

a Postgres database called final-old containing 2 years of production data

Authentication:

SSO, but only for Priya

Deployment:

in a Docker container nobody can rebuild

Responsible:

"the team", which is Priya

Documentation:

a Loom video nobody can find

Security situation:

no security review, no plans for one

Future disaster:

It will break the day Priya changes their password.

Age: 3.7 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 3 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €403k per year, alive 96x longer than intended, 11% chance of becoming business critical.