The AI Taskforce built an AI chatbot for an undefined reason

“The code is self-documenting.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Officially because Budget2026_FIXED.xlsm finally crashed at 16:42. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Petra, a product owner

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Streamlit, somehow now in production

Database:

a SharePoint list with 190,798 items

Authentication:

Miriam knows the password

Deployment:

on the marketing website's server, somehow

Responsible:

Jens, because everyone else refused

Documentation:

a screenshot of a photographed whiteboard

Security situation:

TLS is disabled because it is "inside the network"

Future disaster:

It will process the same invoice 4 times.

Age: 93 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 66 days ago

Rated common mostly because: the builder has left, €25k per year, 1 departments depend on it.