The Board Office built an AI chatbot nobody asked for

“Nobody outside the team uses it.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Because the bug was closed because nobody replied for 11 days. Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Nadia, a working student

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

whatever the AI picked first

Database:

a folder called DO_NOT_DELETE_OLD

Authentication:

the refresh token never expires, for convenience

Deployment:

using a self-signed certificate everybody has accepted

Responsible:

Tobias, because everyone else refused

Documentation:

a Notion page with one sentence and 15 empty headings

Security situation:

the certificate expired 823 days ago

Future disaster:

It will receive an innovation award.

Age: 296 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, €104k per year, alive 21x longer than intended.