CEO's Daughter built a knowledge base with a search that does not search

“We just need it until SAP is updated.”— Tobias, CEO's Daughter

Reason:

Allegedly because someone said "can't ChatGPT do this?". Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Tobias, a field technician

Build time:

8 minutes

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

a folder called DO_NOT_DELETE_OLD

Authentication:

backups are encrypted with the same password as production

Deployment:

on the marketing website's server, somehow

Responsible:

Marketing Manager, who has never opened it

Documentation:

a Notion page with one sentence and 8 empty headings

Security situation:

rate limiting consists of hoping nobody notices

Future disaster:

It will get its own budget line before it gets an owner.

Age: 27 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 27 days ago · original builder left 49 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €79k per year, 2 departments depend on it, the builder has left.