Facility Services built an AI chatbot for an undefined reason

“It's only for a few people.”— Tobias, Facility Services

Reason:

Allegedly because procurement needs three quotes for something costing €249. Forked from a tutorial at 23:03 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Tobias, the management assistant

Build time:

19 minutes

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

a CSV that gets overwritten every Wednesday

Authentication:

the admin route is called /secret

Deployment:

running in Docker Compose on a machine named production-2

Responsible:

Finance Business Partner, who has never opened it

Documentation:

Marco's memory

Security situation:

the admin page is protected by not linking to it

Future disaster:

It will turn out to contain the only correct customer addresses.

Age: 240 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, 54 users, direct production access.