Become an Epic Product Engineer

Kent C. Dodds

English Business Careers Technology

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Episodes 11

Avg. Duration 54m

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Since Apr 2026

Latest Episode May 2026

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About This Podcast

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-a-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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Recent Episodes

Primitives, agent UX, and Executor — product engineering with Rhys Sullivan

May 20, 2026 41m Transcript

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…

Customer research, desire, and Sales Safari - product engineering with Alex Hillman

May 13, 2026 1h 11m Transcript

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,…

Speed, prioritization, and maintainability — product engineering with Julius Marminge

May 06, 2026 42m Transcript

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…

Stakeholder empathy, UX, and durable product skills — product engineering with Jamon Holmgren

Apr 29, 2026 56m Transcript

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…

Watch users, fix systems, and design for humanity — product engineering with Don Norman

Apr 22, 2026 1h 16m Transcript

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…

Human factors, product debt, and industrial design — product engineering with Will King

Apr 15, 2026 1h 1m Transcript

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…

Vertical slices, Solo, and empathy — product engineering with Aaron D. Francis

Apr 08, 2026 45m Transcript

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…

Foundations, feedback, and agents — Dillon Mulroy on product at Cloudflare

Apr 01, 2026 49m Transcript

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…

The right thing before the thing right — product engineering with Wayne Allan

Apr 01, 2026 50m Transcript

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…

Product sense, restraint, and OpenCode with Dax Raad

Apr 01, 2026 54m Transcript

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…

Introducing Season 7: Become a Product Engineer

Apr 01, 2026 2m Transcript

Kent kicks off Become a Product Engineer season 7: why product engineering is the durable skill as AI takes on more implementation, and how this season's guests will help you move closer to product…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many episodes does Become an Epic Product Engineer have?

Become an Epic Product Engineer has published 11 episodes since April 2026, covering topics in Business, Careers.

Is Become an Epic Product Engineer still active?

Become an Epic Product Engineer is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 54m.