How do you know that the authors are novices with "complete blindness" to real consequences? Where are you getting the "find a learning project" goal from?
It sucks that you've been burnt by that before, but it sounds like your employer was the one who screwed you there, not the author of the application.
It sucks that you've been burnt by that before, but it sounds like your employer was the one who screwed you there, not the author of the application.