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Become an Epic Product Engineer

Kent C. Dodds
Product Engineering
User Empathy
Executor
Cloudflare
Don Norman
Software Engineering
Kent C. Dodds
MCP
Solo
AI Agents / Automation
Vercel
Wayne Allan
Artificial Intelligence
Software Development
Intercom
Customer Research
Apple
Design Of Everyday Things
Opencode
Openapi

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 f... more

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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 knowing when to speak up (and when t... more

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.

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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, and why the best product work... more

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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 customer feedback is an input, not ... more

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Recent Guests

Swizec Teller
Software engineer with biotech focus
Biotech company (biotech software)
Episode: User outcomes, workflow design, and biotech software - product engineering with Swizec Teller
Jack Ryan
Principal Engineer at Intercom
Intercom
Episode: User empathy, feedback loops, and what not to build - product engineering with Jack Ryan
Rhys Sullivan
Guest; developer working on Executor and MCP-related projects
Executor / MCP ecosystem
Episode: Primitives, agent UX, and Executor - product engineering with Rhys Sullivan
Alex Hillman
Co-founder of Stacking the Bricks; educator and practitioner in product research
Stacking the Bricks
Episode: Customer research, desire, and Sales Safari - product engineering with Alex Hillman
Julius Marminge
Engineer focusing on AI-powered product orchestration
T3 ecosystem / former Cursor/Codex experiences
Episode: Speed, prioritization, and maintainability — product engineering with Julius Marminge
Jamon Holmgren
Co-founder of Infinite Red, React Native specialist
Infinite Red
Episode: Stakeholder empathy, UX, and durable product skills — product engineering with Jamon Holmgren
Don Norman
Author and design thinker; expert in user experience and cognitive engineering
Nielsen Norman Group (co-founder) / Don Norman Design Award
Episode: Watch users, fix systems, and design for humanity — product engineering with Don Norman
Will King
Industrial designer turned product engineer who discusses applying human factors to software
Episode: Human factors, product debt, and industrial design — product engineering with Will King
Aaron D. Francis
Product engineer and creator of Solo desktop app
Solo project
Episode: Vertical slices, Solo, and empathy — product engineering with Aaron D. Francis

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Kent C. Dodds
Host of Become an Epic Product Engineer

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User empathy, feedback loops, and what not to build - product engineering with Jack Ryan
Q: What types of activities does a product engineer do to make the right decisions?
Engage deeply with user empathy, sit in on customer calls (live or via channels like Slack feedback), and synthesize both qualitative insights and structured data to identify core problems. The process also involves deciding not only what to build but whether and when to build it, ensuring decisions are justified by user needs and business context rather than just feature requests.
Speed, prioritization, and maintainability — product engineering with Julius Marminge
Q: What is your approach to prioritization when there are many potential enhancements?
Start with feature parity with existing workflows to ease migration, then progressively refactor toward a more general, scalable layout and core systems that can accommodate multiple use cases.
Speed, prioritization, and maintainability — product engineering with Julius Marminge
Q: How do you decide whether a feature is worth having in the long term?
By weighing its long-term impact on maintainability, extensibility, and whether it fits into a generalized foundation that can support future needs rather than creating narrow, one-off solutions.
Vertical slices, Solo, and empathy — product engineering with Aaron D. Francis
Q: What role does vision or a North Star play in Solo and similar projects?
Having a clear North Star guides which problems to tackle and helps avoid bloated, unfocused development by aligning features with a specific slice of user needs and long-term product goals.
Vertical slices, Solo, and empathy — product engineering with Aaron D. Francis
Q: How do you extract clarity from users who say what they want but may not know the underlying problem?
Ask for the underlying intent, surface the problem space, validate with a North Star, and look for solutions that address the root need rather than implementing every requested feature.

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This show centers on durable product engineering skills that endure as automation and AI take on more implementation work. Conversations revolve around defining useful primitives for AI-powered workflows, balancing speed with quality, and designing for reliable, scalable agent-driven interactions. Guests share practical experiences shipping real software, from open architectures and design patterns to user empathy and problem clarity, with long-form discussions that blend technical depth with product judgment. Viewers can expect actionable takeaways, such as structured approaches to product sense, user research methods, and strategies for maintaining durable software foundations in an evolving AI landscape. A notable strength is the emphasi... more

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