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by baetylus 756 days ago
Another underappreciated effect of dogfooding may be its reduction in bloated functionality.

If you're not dogfooding, you rely harder on a mental user model. Just conjecturing -- not only does that model diverge across your organization, but it could result in more top-down decisions about what a user wants, which probably creates more politics and friction all around your teams.