CEO's Daughter built an expense approval workflow

“We'll document it after the quarter.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Honestly? Because the official form has 42 fields and not the one that matters. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Sarah, an analyst

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

an AI agent with shell access

Database:

Jira custom fields, somehow

Authentication:

a login screen that accepts any password

Deployment:

deployed by copying files over RDP

Responsible:

Elena, according to nobody except Chen

Documentation:

comments in the code, in a second language

Security situation:

it emails a CSV of everything at 16:42, nightly

Future disaster:

It will send an invoice of €249 to the wrong country.

Age: 48 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 32 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €495k per year, 35% chance of becoming business critical, 2 accidental connections.