An intern built an AI chatbot for an undefined reason

“There's already a Confluence page.”— Olivier, An intern

Reason:

Officially because the budget appeared unexpectedly on Monday. Started as Suppliers_old_new2.csv with a script attached.

Built by:

Olivier, an analyst

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

an Oracle database that costs more than the application

Authentication:

the password is "Password1!" because it meets the policy

Deployment:

accessible through an IP address because DNS is "later"

Responsible:

whoever still has the admin password

Documentation:

tribal knowledge, technically

Security situation:

production secrets are in the README

Future disaster:

It will stop working when Marco's credit card expires.

Age: 3.9 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 325 users, alive 16x longer than intended, €18k per year.