Hey fellow nerd. What project was it? I'm just curious if I came across it. I loved digging through the solutions repositories every quarter or so -- always something new and legitimately useful.
If AWS forced their teams to "dogfood", it would quickly morph into the Testuo blob monster from Akira -- there are too many products/services popping up too quickly, and the amount of time and knowledge lost to the constant changes would be catastrophic.
Dogfooding is for simpler companies. It's also bullshit and best for product managers and sales. Let tech work with what's best for their specific internal environment.
You want the freedom to make your own uninformed decisions based on data that you don't understand. That's fine.
It's when this inevitably leads to uninformed people making bad decisions for others based on easily available that they don't understand -- that is the problem. We've already seen this with shitty Covid tests. We see it all the time when insurance companies use the cheapest routes to "resolve" specific maladies.
If something can be exploited, it will be exploited in a capitalist economy. And everyone needs healthcare eventually.
I know, the headline only says "linked", but most people skip over that nuance.
The type of person that would use marijuana daily may not be the type of person to exercise much as they should, or eat as well as they should, or maybe they have incredibly bad anxiety..