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by userbinator 756 days ago
Dogfooding was popularised by Microsoft, which AFAIK is still doing it, but it seems these days it's more like they're just being force-fed the dogfood without having any actual power to change it.
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One of the main problems with Facebook's metaverse was precisely that none of the developers working on it actually wanted to use it, to the point where it had to be mandated by management.

Like, guys, when even the people who are making your product don't want to use it, this counts as data about how successful the product will be. If you have to force paid employees to use the product, then you'd have to pay users to use it too: there's no profit margin here, there's no user base.