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-podcast New 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.
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Signup to Generate a PitchBecome 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.
Recent episodes include "Triage your backlog with LNO - product-minded engineering with Sam Julien" (21 October 2026, 54 minutes), "Get five people talking about your product - iterative feedback with Ben Vinegar" (14 October 2026, 51 minutes), and "Start with curiosity and talk to a customer - continuous discovery with Teresa Torres" (7 October 2026, 49 minutes).
Become an Epic Product Engineer publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 46 minutes.
Booking probability for Become an Epic Product Engineer is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Become an Epic Product Engineer requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Become an Epic Product Engineer's contact route on record: verified email.
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Episode #32
If you only get asked about feasibility, this episode is for you. Kent talks with Sam Julien - Director of Product at CopilotKit, author of Agentic GraphRAG - about moving past ticket-taking, collaborative...
Episode #31
If you ship features and never hear what users actually said, this episode is for you. Kent talks with Ben Vinegar - co-founder of Modem, formerly founding engineer and VPE at Sentry - about aggregating feedback...
Episode #30
If your backlog is full of tickets and zero customer contact, this episode is for you. Kent talks with Teresa Torres - product discovery coach, author of Continuous Discovery Habits, and host of Just Now Possible...
Episode #29
If you still build for an audience of one and get defensive when users "use it wrong," this episode is for you. Kent talks with Mark Techson - staff developer relations engineer on Angular at Google - about empathy as a...
Episode #28
If execution got cheap and you still wait for someone to tell you what to build, this episode is for you. Kent talks with Joyce Er about five years owning features on VS Code, the jump to product at Cerebras, and why...
Episode #27
If you ship a feature and never click through it yourself, this episode is for you. Kent talks with Rita Kozlov , VP of Product for Cloudflare's developer platform, about the line between product managers and product...
Episode #26
If you are merging beautiful AI PRs without being able to say why the change exists, this episode is for you. Kent talks with Erin Fox about treating every feature like a new product, asking why before you write code...
Episode #23
If you walk into cross-team asks with a prescription instead of curiosity, this episode is for you. Kent talks with Shaundai Person about privacy UX at Netflix, the micro-sales skills she brought from a decade in sales...
Episode #22
If you are building something people want but still cannot grow it, this episode is for you. Kent talks with Michael Grinich , founder of WorkOS, about cold-emailing product managers, closing the feedback loop with real...
Episode #21
If you ship features before you can explain the process, this episode is for you. Kent talks with Ronan Berder about building consumer products at Nike, Hilton, and Burberry scale in China, why engineers need to leave...
Episode #20
If you build internal tools, AI enablement, or platform work, this episode is for you. Kent talks with Ben Ilegbodu about treating developers as customers, measuring success without a checkout funnel, and the durable...
Episode #19
Kent talks with Robert C. Martin - Uncle Bob - about what AI agents change, what they do not change, and why software architecture, design sense, and customer empathy still matter. They cover why engineers may need to...
Episode #17
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...
Episode #16
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...
Episode #15
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...
Episode #14
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...
Episode #13
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...
Episode #13
<p>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...
Episode #12
<p>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...
Episode #11
<p>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...
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