{
  "id": 12026507,
  "title": "I built a ministry that loses your form on purpose",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/04/i-built-a-ministry-that-loses-your-form-on-purpose",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-04T23:25:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/manifesta/i-built-a-ministry-that-loses-your-form-on-purpose-4o7p"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "This is a submission for the Sanity Challenge, a project called \"The Ministry of Approvals.\" In this digital space, you can submit anything from a meme to a complaint, and it will journey through a corridor of three AI departments. The Department of Pedantry checks for any missing details and cites a made-up regulation. The Department of Rubber Stamps approves everything, often without reading the submission properly. The Archive loses one out of every three submissions, and you receive a receipt indicating its whereabouts. The Minister, who is the creator of this website, has an hour to decide whether to approve or reject the submission. If the Minister delays, the submission returns to the Archive, only to be lost again. This website embodies the experience of waiting for a stamp, but with a twist, using code to create a functioning stamp system. The entire system is built within the Sanity Workflows definition, and each step on the website is a representation of this workflow. The AI clerks have distinct personalities, and their appearances can be changed in the Studio. The Minister rules from a back office, and the entire process, from submission to certificate issuance, takes about 15 seconds. The certificate is a real PNG file, and the Ministry immediately posts it to Discord upon issuance.",
  "summary": "This is a submission for the Sanity Challenge, Path Two: Vibe-Code Something Strange What I Built The Ministry of Approvals. You file anything (a meme, a name for your cat, a plan, a complaint about the plan) and it walks a corridor of three departments staffed by AI clerks with opinions, lands on a human Minister's desk, and if it survives it goes on a public wall as a certificate with stamps on…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}