
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
| Publishes | Twice weekly | Episodes | 12 | Founded | 10 days ago |
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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
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 keep quality high when shipping h... more
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 believe, and how to make people feel... more
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 important as parallel AI workflows ... more
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 more as implementation gets c... more
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 through a remarkable arc from el... more
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 dig into product debt, suppor... more
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 a painful problem—not a featur... more
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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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Recent guests on Become an Epic Product Engineer include:
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2. Alex Hillman
3. Julius Marminge
4. Jamon Holmgren
5. Don Norman
6. Will King
7. Aaron D. Francis
8. Dillon Mulroy
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