Internal Communications built a social media content calendar

“The AI understands the code.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Because the tiny change needs approval from 5 people. Built in 5 evenings and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Petra, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

an Electron app wrapping a website

Database:

an API that returns CSV

Authentication:

the app is secure because it has a padlock icon

Deployment:

running with 94% disk usage

Responsible:

a consultancy that changed its name twice

Documentation:

a folder called OLD_DO_NOT_USE containing the current documentation

Security situation:

passwords are "encrypted" with Base64

Future disaster:

It will get a support rota before it gets an owner.

Age: 24 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 24 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €311k per year, 79 users, 21% chance of becoming business critical.