Someone who regularly uses a product before it's released to the public — usually an employee or insider tester who integrates the unfinished software into their actual workflow and reports what breaks. Dogfooders are the front line of product reality: they find the bugs that never appear in controlled demos, get frustrated by friction that the demo never surfaces, and occasionally discover that the product they've been building is genuinely good. Being a dogfooder is part test duty, part existential reckoning with what your team actually shipped.
As a dogfooder for the new app, she found three critical bugs before it ever reached the beta group.
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