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Become an Epic Product Engineer

by Kent C. Dodds

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Start with curiosity and talk to a customer - continuous discovery with Teresa Torres

October 7, 2026 · 49 min

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 - about why engineers…
Lead with empathy and listen without defense - product sense with Mark Techson

September 30, 2026 · 43 min

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 career…
Keep a friction log and read a sales book - product ownership with Joyce Er

September 23, 2026 · 37 min

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 trust is the metric…
Use the product yourself - empathy, architecture, and PM partnership with Rita Kozlov

September 16, 2026 · 39 min

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 engineers, why…
Ask why in every PR - product engineering with Erin Fox

September 9, 2026 · 40 min

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, and rebuilding the…

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AI is a tool, not a silver bullet - product discovery with Peppe Silletti

September 2, 2026 · 42 min

If shipping got cheap and you are still not sure you are building the right thing, this episode is for you. Kent talks with Peppe Silletti, independent product engineer and host of The Product Engineers Podcast, about why customer…
Curiosity, micro-sales, and AI as a supplement with Shaundai Person

August 19, 2026 · 47 min

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, and why AI should…
Talk to users, ship live demos, and build durable products with Michael Grinich

August 12, 2026 · 47 min

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 users, and why live…
Write it down: process, benchmarking, and product judgment with Ronan Berder

August 5, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

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 the IDE, and why a…
Developer customers, AI skills, and durable product judgment with Ben Ilegbodu

July 29, 2026 · 43 min

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 skills that still…
Architecture, AI agents, and product empathy with Robert C. Martin

July 22, 2026 · 44 min

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 "walk away from the…
Curiosity, UX, and durable engineering skills with Annie Sexton

July 15, 2026 · 49 min

Kent talks with Annie Sexton, developer educator at ngrok, about the durable skills engineers need as AI changes the shape of software work. They cover how to teach complex technical ideas without assuming too much, why curiosity keeps…

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About the show

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.