Solo episodes from Kent C. Dodds on durable skills for people who ship software: judgment, accountability, problem clarity, and what stays valuable as AI takes on more implementation. Kent teaches directly on camera — no guest, one idea at a time. Complements guest interviews on Become a Product Engineer (Chats with Kent). Episode 1 adapts The Last Software Engineer; later episodes cover traps like building the wrong thing faster and skills like making user pain visible. Subscribe for evergreen episodes as the series grows.
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Signup to Generate a PitchSolo episodes from Kent C. Dodds on durable skills for people who ship software: judgment, accountability, problem clarity, and what stays valuable as AI takes on more implementation. Kent teaches directly on camera, no guest, one idea at a time. Complements guest interviews on Become a Product Engineer (Chats with Kent).
Recent episodes include "My AI Employees Won't Let Me Sleep" (27 October 2026, 10 minutes), "The Future of Software is Invisible" (20 October 2026, 15 minutes), and "How to Put Your Codebase on Autopilot" (13 October 2026, 19 minutes).
Better with Kent publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 16 minutes.
Booking probability for Better with Kent is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Better with Kent requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Better with Kent's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Better with Kent are IT Services & Software Development. Better with Kent has an education audience.
Better with Kent is an education podcast.
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Episode #29
I gave my AI agents everything they need to work without me, and now they never sleep, never eat, and never run out of questions for me. Here's what that's costing me (sleep, meals, and time with my kids) and the quiet...
Episode #28
SaaS products are in serious trouble, and it's not because someone vibe coded Adobe in Rust. We're heading toward a world where billions of people create software without even realizing it, because their agents write it...
Episode #27
I shipped 122 PRs in 24 hours straight out of my software factory, mostly while I was doing something else. Here's the system that lets agents file their own friction, make good PRs, catch their own mistakes, and keep...
Episode #26
Self-hosting Kody off Cloudflare used to sound thermonuclear. Deno Celld changed the math — and Kent's Grok bot handed the experiment to Devin. Then docker compose up actually worked. (00:00) - Cold open: Kody running...
Package apps on Kody turn a package into something you can install and use on your phone. This episode walks morning briefing, package-app-kit, and a phone demo of a swipe deck over Gmail, GitHub, and Calendar. Better...
Episode #24
Gmail has no drafts-only OAuth scope. If an agent can draft, it can send. Two Kody locks make drafts-never-send actually true. (00:00) - Cold open: agent sent email without review (00:52) - Better with Kent (01:25)...
You already paid an agent to figure it out. Tomorrow you ask again. Kody turns the good answer into a package you keep, so any agent can run it forever. (00:00) - You ask again (00:22) - What if you only had to ask...
Episode #22
You already pay for more than one agent. Give them a shared home so Cursor, Grok, and Devin share software, memories, and tasks instead of starting from zero every chat. (00:00) - Meet Kody (00:22) - Better with Kent...
Episode #21
New agent chats keep asking product questions you already answered. Write short ADRs so the next agent opens the no instead of making you the memory. (00:00) - Fill the agent's mind (00:36) - Better with Kent (00:46)...
Episode #19
People worry AI is destroying craft and making developers lazy. Kent says that is incomplete: most will hand judgment to the agent. The differentiators own the system, the UX, and what the agent learns to care about...
Episode #17
A giant AGENTS.md feels responsible. It is often just burning tokens. Kent walks the Claude Code 80% cut, a research paper that found +20% cost for little gain, a live prune of his own file, and homework: make the...
Episode #18
Most people use agents to write code. Watch Kent use one to decide what to build: gather evidence, argue primitives, peel cleanup into side quests, keep the judgment - and only then type go. (00:00) - Cold open: I think...
Episode #16
Agents are doing the work you did months ago. That is not doom - it is how abstraction travel works. Kent shows the climb-dont-cling timeline, a conductor-of-orchestrators example, and a one-week homework handoff. 0:00...
Episode #14
Better with Kent - durable skills for people who ship software. Every morning Kent wakes up to a PR that deletes more lines than it adds. Not flaky tests. Not broken tests. Low-signal ones — tiny wrappers, magic-number...
Your agent opened the PR. Now you're refreshing CI and arguing with bots. Kent shows the ship-pr skill that closes that loop - mark ready, fix CI, triage review, Discord handoff - so you spend attention on risk, not...
Agent PRs are too big to read line by line. Kent shows a visual system recap in the PR description - classify what changed as composes, extends, or adds - so you review the architecture first, then the code that...
Want the system from this episode? Check out Kody at https://heykody.dev/ Kent replays a real publish night — one Cursor conversation where the agent drove Notion, Canva, Kit, Transistor, Bluesky, and LinkedIn through...
One orchestrator prompt, six platform swaps, and a real production cutover on kentcdodds.com — the workflow, the review loop, the perf scare, and where the agents were wrong. (00:00) - One prompt, 40,000 lines (00:44)...
Episode #10
If your coding agent keeps producing garbage, better prompting may not fix it. Kent shows how intentional system primitives make agents more reliable, efficient, composable, and auditable. (00:00) - Bad agent output...
Kent reacts to Dax's question on X — why no framework dethroned React — and connects it to Jobs Theory, network effects, and why framework choice matters less when agents write the code. Chapters 00:00 — Why did nobody...
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