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Hosted by Kent C. Dodds · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 18 episodes
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Become an Epic Product Engineer is Kent C. Dodds's interview podcast about skills that stay valuable as AI takes on more implementation: product engineering - blending technical depth with product judgment, user empathy, and problem clarity.Each episode is a long-form conversation with a guest who has shipped real software and cares about building the right thing before making it right. You get full audio, transcripts, structured show notes, homework (one concrete action to try), and links from the conversation.Canonical home for the show and every episode page: https://www.epicproduct.engineer/become-an-epic-product-engineer-podcastNew episodes publish on Wednesdays (America/Denver). Video is added on Transistor for supported podcast apps when available.Complements Better with Kent - Kent's solo series on durable skills for people who ship software.
Kent C. Dodds hosts Become an Epic Product Engineer, a technology show with 18 episodes published.
Kent talks with Michael Shimeles - Rasmic - about building products in the AI era without losing the engineering judgment that makes software useful. They cover AI consulting, why clients often ask for the wrong thing, h
Kent talks with Lucas Wargha , engineering manager at FamilySearch , about turning software engineers into product engineers: understanding mission and business outcomes, talking to real users across cultures, and stoppi
Kent talks with Ruben Casas about building products again in the AI-agent era: why experienced engineers can now stay close to customers and code, how demos turn vague ideas into something people can react to, and why pr
Kent talks with Sean Roberts , engineer at PhotoShelter , about product engineering shaped by agency work and small teams: being the technical person in sales conversations early, planning with product judgment, and know
Kent talks with Grady Booch about what software engineering still means in the age of AI agents, why implementation is only one part of the work, and why human judgment remains central to building durable systems. They d
Kent talks with Swizec Teller about product engineering for software that serves real businesses and non-developer users: how to learn a domain you did not grow up in, how to spot hidden friction by watching people work,
Kent talks with Jack Ryan, Principal Engineer at Intercom, about product engineering at scale: why implementation is only part of the job, how to broaden what you measure as success beyond shipping tickets, and why custo
Kent talks with Rhys Sullivan about building Executor and thinking like a product engineer in the AI-agent era: how to design the right primitives, why agent experience is becoming its own product surface, and how to kee
Kent talks with Alex Hillman of Stacking the Bricks about customer research, product fit, and the kind of product engineering that starts before implementation: understanding who you are serving, what they already believ
Kent talks with Julius Marminge about building T3 Code in the agent-orchestrator wave: why speed still matters, why fast shipping does not mean shipping every possible feature, and how product judgment becomes more impor
Kent talks with Jamon Holmgren about product engineering from a long-running consultancy lens: how working with clients, stakeholders, and non-technical users sharpens your product sense, and why those skills matter even
Kent talks with Don Norman about why the core work of product engineering has not changed: watch people work, treat so-called user error as a design problem, and fix root causes instead of blaming symptoms. Don walks thr
Kent talks with Will King about bringing an industrial design mindset into software: human factors, observing real users, and why good product engineering starts with caring enough to notice what frustrates people. They
Kent talks with Aaron D. Francis about product engineering: why ticket-taking implementation is losing ground to agents, what a vertical slice from UI to database really means, and how Aaron’s desktop app Solo came from
Kent talks with Dillon Mulroy, Principal Engineer at Cloudflare, about Agent Experience and dogfooding AI platform work: how Cloudflare closes the loop between builders and customers, why observability and support are pr
Kent talks with Wayne Allan (engineer, PM, and consultant) about product engineering in practice: why “building the thing right” only matters after you’re building the right thing, how to shorten feedback loops without s
Kent talks with Dax Raad about building OpenCode in a crowded coding-agent market: why dev tools are still a consumer-style product, how fast shipping can make good products feel worse, and what “product skill” actually
Kent opens Become an Epic Product Engineer: why product engineering is the durable skill as AI takes on more implementation, what to expect from guest conversations and homework, and where to start in the catalog. Softwa
Jack Ryan
drummer for The Marcus King Band · Omd (Omnicom Media Group)
1 appearance on this show
Alex Hillman
co-founder · Stacking the Bricks
1 appearance on this show
Jamon Holmgren
Infinite Red
1 appearance on this show
Don Norman
1 appearance on this show
Will King
Design Engineer · Kansas Men's Golf
1 appearance on this show
Dax Raad
OpenCode
1 appearance on this show
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