Facility Services built a product catalogue that disagrees with the product catalogue

“It has a login screen.”— Chen, Facility Services

Reason:

Because the test account belongs to Priya from a field technician. Built in 7 evenings and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Chen, a controller

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

a vector database because somebody said RAG

Authentication:

the production token is in someone's shell history

Deployment:

last deployed 88 days ago

Responsible:

Bastian, whose laptop contains the only working environment

Documentation:

none whatsoever

Security situation:

rate limiting consists of hoping nobody notices

Future disaster:

It will be discovered during due diligence.

Age: 4.0 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 4 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 104x longer than intended, €3k per year, 2 users.