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First job out of college was some nonsense webapp that they ported from php to Java not by rewriting but by building a Java based PHP engine. Instead of cordoning that and migrating to a proper MVC framework they instead used PHP as the view layer, with a hash table as the model.

Home lender who bought the source code of a vendors refi platform only to find out they did not buy the database. We reverse engineered that hunk of shit for over a year. Vendor had a classic "broken back button" issue that they fixed by providing a patched version of IE with back button disabled.

That credit card company was also fun because they had a directory of several thousand "landing pages" all managed by a single design guy whos whole process was just copy the latest and make some changes. Sourdough starter of HTML deeply coupled to the database schema.

Anyways this is why I can only laugh when I hear someone say "agents cant write production code" or "every line must be human reviewed". Yeah sure man that's been working out great so far.