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kkbreddit t1_j8y6hv8 wrote

Reply to comment by genericrich in Google CEO Sundar Pichai asks employees to put two to four hours into helping to improve and 'dogfood' its Bard chatbot by tester989chromeos

Dogfooding is a common practice at Google for all products and new features. This is is addition to QA, more like pre alpha testing.

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Agariculture t1_j8zax6p wrote

Im curious. Why that word for that process?

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walkslikeaduck08 t1_j8zbsbm wrote

Doesn’t seem like there’s a clear explanation but

> In 2006, the editor of IEEE Software recounted that in the 1970s television advertisements for Alpo dog food, Lorne Greene pointed out that he fed Alpo to his own dogs. Another possible origin he remembers is from the president of Kal Kan Pet Food, who was said to eat a can of his dog food at shareholders' meetings.

> In 1988, Microsoft manager Paul Maritz sent Brian Valentine, test manager for Microsoft LAN Manager, an email titled "Eating our own Dogfood", challenging him to increase internal usage of the company's product. From there, the usage of the term spread through the company.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food

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