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Andy Edser

AI software company Graphite says it practices 'dogfooding' and 'onboarding roulette' by deleting employee accounts at random

Dogmeat and the Sole Survivor from Fallout 4.

I thought I'd heard every bit of corpo-speak going at this point in my career, but apparently I was wrong. AI code review platform Graphite has published a blog detailing its use of "dogfooding" to help develop its onboarding process, a particularly ugly term that apparently equates to "being forced to eat your own dogfood".

Essentially, you make the product, you should be forced to use it—which Graphite apparently enacts by randomly deleting employee accounts on a daily basis, a process it refers to as "onboarding roulette".

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