IT (yes, really) built a budget forecast tool with hardcoded 2019 rates

“It's read-only except for updates.”— Nadia, IT (yes, really)

Reason:

Mainly because the integration has been "temporarily disabled" for 12 months. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Nadia, a working student

Build time:

1 hours 45 minutes

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

a SQLite file on a network share

Authentication:

Daniel is still an admin because removing access felt risky

Deployment:

deployed from Olivier's laptop

Responsible:

whoever still has the admin password

Documentation:

comments beginning with TODO 2026

Security situation:

it is indexed by Google. All of it.

Future disaster:

It will be discovered during due diligence.

Age: 1.3 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 6 departments depend on it, 36 users, alive 33x longer than intended.