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by JohnFen 749 days ago
> if you’re not dogfooding what you’ve created, you either don’t believe in it or you didn’t have a need for it (i.e., likely a solution for a nonexistent problem)

That entirely depends on what sort of thing you're programming. My current job is programming for industrial equipment. I certainly don't, and won't ever, personally have a use for the software I write, but that software is 100% addressing a real problem.