Become an Epic Product Engineer
Hosted by Kent C Dodds and Kent · Kent C. Dodds
5.0from 4 ratings
- 32
- Episodes
- 13
- Transcribed
- 4
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2026
- First episode
About Become an Epic Product Engineer
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.
- Publisher
- Kent C. Dodds
- Category
- business · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Apr 2026
- Latest episode
- 21 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
13 of 32 episodes have a transcript.
21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Triage your backlog with LNO - product-minded engineering with Sam Julien
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Get five people talking about your product - iterative feedback with Ben Vinegar
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Start with curiosity and talk to a customer - continuous discovery with Teresa Torres
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Triage your backlog with LNO - product-minded engineering with Sam Julien
Published 21 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Like will people actually use or buy it? This is like the classic, like one of the main things that product is there to solve. Because one of the main things we need to do is gatekeep around sales-driven development, basically of like whoever is the loudest or most valuable customer driving the product roadmap. And so we have to be able to triangulate all the different signals of like, like, cause we're going to constantly be getting asked like, Hey, this million dollar customer needs this feature and they need it yesterday. But you have to be able to say like, well, no, because this other million dollar customer needs this feature, you know? […]
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- Sam Julien
- Ben Vinegar
- Teresa Torres
- Mark Techson
- Joyce Er
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Kent C Dodds and Kent host the show. Published by Kent C. Dodds.
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