It seems from a literal dog food company who's own employees would never feed their dogs the product they make because it was so bad.
This then caused them to recognize their inferior product and rally around improving it. It's a pretty important concept in managing a business, what employee performs well if they themselves wouldn't use the product they make.
Nerrs t1_j8wpppj wrote
Reply to comment by slackinfux in Google CEO Sundar Pichai asks employees to put two to four hours into helping to improve and 'dogfood' its Bard chatbot by tester989chromeos
It seems from a literal dog food company who's own employees would never feed their dogs the product they make because it was so bad.
This then caused them to recognize their inferior product and rally around improving it. It's a pretty important concept in managing a business, what employee performs well if they themselves wouldn't use the product they make.