dogfood pilled

The mindset of someone who has become deeply convinced that the only way to build good products is to use them yourself — and who can't stop evangelizing this belief to anyone who will listen. Dogfood pilled engineers are the ones who turn every meeting into a conversation about whether the team is actually using what they're building, and who treat shipping something you wouldn't personally use as a moral failure. They're often right. They can also be exhausting. But the products that come out of dogfood-pilled teams tend to have a quality of care that users notice immediately.