In a somewhat troubled company I worked at, and where I honestly stayed a bit too long, I once resorted to writing a prototype, in bash, and in the most idiosyn

In a somewhat troubled company I worked at, and where I honestly stayed a bit too long, I once resorted to writing a prototype, in bash, and in the most idiosyncratic way possible with two goals in mind: 1) Make sure that I didn't have to handle some messy deployment when it inevitably would become rebranded to production code. 2) Make sure nobody in their right mind would try to extend the functionality and keep me responsible for fixing the inevitable wreck. Obviously it was put into production, still is, and has not been extended with anything except the initial functionality. I don't know if that counts as a success or a failure, but at least deployment was never an issue!