Three People From Finance built an AI chatbot trained on the employee handbook

“We only need it until the consultant comes back.”— Petra, Three People From Finance

Reason:

Because the integration has been "temporarily disabled" for 15 months. With a logo generated at 16:30.

Built by:

Petra, a team lead

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

three AI coding tools arguing through the same repository

Database:

a GitHub Gist that became business critical

Authentication:

the logout button is on the roadmap

Deployment:

deployed behind a Cloudflare Tunnel from Tobias's laptop

Responsible:

Tobias, who thought somebody else owned it

Documentation:

a folder called OLD_DO_NOT_USE containing the current documentation

Security situation:

the user's role is stored in localStorage

Future disaster:

It will get a staging environment after production breaks.

Age: 30 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 6 departments depend on it, 21% chance of becoming business critical, €19k per year.