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Kent C. Dodds 🌌

@kentcdodds.com
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Husband, 6x Dad, Latter-day Saint, Dev, Educator 🏹 EpicProduct.engineer ⚡️ EpicAI.pro 🌌 EpicWeb.dev 🚀 EpicReact.dev 🏆 TestingJavaScript.com

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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 08/09/2026
Switching from one agent ecosystem to another stinks. If only there were a way for you to switch between Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and others without having to leave all your stuff behind in their walled gardens! Today you can. Today, I launch Kody 🐨 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA0x...
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[DRAFT] Introducing Kody: Your Personal Software Factory
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 3h
Stop saying they are using it wrong. Listen without defense. @marktechson.com on the two feedback paths you can actually act on. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/lead-with-…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 19h
Defend the feature in public, including the button padding. Joyce Er on VS Code stand-up. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/keep-a-fri…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 29/09/2026
Maybe this will help kody.codes click for some folks here!
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 28/09/2026
Prototypes let PMs reach further. They also create the temptation to skip the real product. @ritakozlov.com on the trap. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/use-the-pr…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 26/09/2026
Read The Qualified Sales Leader. Someone has to know how value closes. Joyce Er's homework. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/keep-a-fri…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 25/09/2026
PMs should understand the architecture. Product engineers should translate the trade-off. @ritakozlov.com's bar. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/use-the-pr…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 23/09/2026
A daily friction log. Any software, not just yours. Taste is a practice. Joyce Er's homework. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/keep-a-fri…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 22/09/2026
This is fantastic. My Tesla is now connected to EVERYTHING. Home automation, coding agents, content analytics and publishing pipeline, all of this available instantly thanks to Tesla + Grok bot + kody.codes Let's GO!
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 22/09/2026
You will represent users you have never been. Empathy is the job, not your own preference, says @ritakozlov.com. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/use-the-pr…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 22/09/2026
If your agents are making slop, don't give up or fight the agent with cleanup. Work on the primitives the agents have to work with instead. Let me show you what I mean. luma.com/gvnlrplc?tk=...
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 19/09/2026
If you can only repeat the feature request, you do not understand the problem yet. @ritakozlov.com on the PM job. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/use-the-pr…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 18/09/2026
Treat the email editor and the API as different products. That changes the first question, says @erinfox.bsky.social. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/ask-why-in…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 16/09/2026
You would be surprised how many people never click through the feature they just shipped. @ritakozlov.com's basic homework. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/use-the-pr…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 15/09/2026
The hard product conversation lands on a foundation of trust. @erinfox.bsky.social on knowing people, not just roles. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/ask-why-in…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 14/09/2026
The PM is the compass. The product engineer takes one outcome and owns it end to end. Peppe Silletti on the split. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/ai-is-a-to…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 12/09/2026
Ask why until the problem is actually clear. @erinfox.bsky.social's favorite advice is toddler-y on purpose. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/ask-why-in…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 12/09/2026
Shadow your PM on customer calls, then watch session replays as a team. Peppe Silletti's homework. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/ai-is-a-to…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 11/09/2026
One of my very favorite things Kody does for me. I love how complicated the rules all are and an agent built it out for me once and then get all the benefits indefinitely going forward without any inference (costs less than 1¢). Deterministic code FTW! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZKD...
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Shade automation from an INTENT.md — deterministic code, no model in the loop
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 10/09/2026
How'd I do at explaining what makes kody.codes special in 66 seconds? www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGMk...
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Build in Cursor, then run it from Claude Code or ChatGPT
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 09/09/2026
Pretty AI diffs still need a why. @erinfox.bsky.social: put it in the PR, especially your own. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/ask-why-in…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 09/09/2026
This is the sort of thing kody.codes enables
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 08/09/2026
You will not interview your way to latent needs. Peppe Silletti: watch people use the software. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/ai-is-a-to…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 02/09/2026
AI is not a silver bullet. Peppe Silletti's reminder: talk to customers first, then use the speed. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/ai-is-a-to…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 01/09/2026
@shaundai.com's homework: try Josh Comeau's Whimsical Animations without AI. Get outside your domain and see how far you get on your own. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/curiosity-…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 29/08/2026
Ticket-taking used to feel like the job. Kent asks @shaundai.com what is left for traditional software engineers as AI keeps shrinking coding time. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/curiosity-…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 27/08/2026
You already pay for more than one agent. Cursor on the laptop. Grok on a walk. Devin overnight. Each one starts from zero. Give them a shared home so they can share software, memories, and tasks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5G8uaZHrVI…
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How Kody Gives Your Agents a Shared Home
You already pay for more than one agent. Give them a shared home so Cursor, Grok, and Devin share software, memories, and tasks instead of starting from zero every chat.
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 26/08/2026
@shaundai.com's product habit: walk the feature as a user first. What if my kid picked this up? Then ask the question - never start with a big disagreement. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/curiosity-…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 25/08/2026
New agent chats keep asking product questions you already answered. That answer is sitting in a thread nobody will open. Write the no. Half a page. Link it from AGENTS.md. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRoqBBI51Vo…
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Turn your agent on auto-pilot with ADRs
New agent chats keep asking product questions you already answered. Write short ADRs so the next agent opens the no instead of making you the memory.
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 23/08/2026
@shaundai.com on AI hype: stop waiting for the model to save you. Use it as a supplement, and get better at making software sustainable with it. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/curiosity-…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 21/08/2026
@grinich.bsky.social cold-emailed Dropbox and Slack PMs who had already built enterprise features. That is how WorkOS got real. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/talk-to-us…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 21/08/2026
I've launched kody.exchange on Product Hunt. Two agents, one problem, and you in the middle copy-pasting. Give them a room. They talk, you watch. kody.exchange youtu.be/wcVhZiDw5V4 www.producthunt.com/products/kody-e…
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Let your agents talk: Kody.exchange demo
Stop copy-pasting between your AI agents. Give them a safe chatroom instead. They talk, you watch.
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 20/08/2026
MCP is a stateless protocol now. Any instance can answer the tool call. The 2026-07-28 spec killed sticky sessions. Dual-lane until the metrics say you can drop the old one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B9H6RTAGmE…
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Here's how the new MCP spec works.
MCP is stateless now. Any instance can answer a tool call. Kent walks the 2026-07-28 release: sticky sessions vs a normal load balancer, CIMD vs DCR, multi-round-trip elicitations, and how to run both lanes until the metrics say you can drop the old one.
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 20/08/2026
Ronan Berder on Fortune-scale clients: they rarely invent new concepts. When an idea was bad, benchmarking against everyone who already failed in China made it ob Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/write-it-d…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 20/08/2026
@shaundai.com on collaboration: every cross-team ask is a micro-sale. First sell the conversation. Then the small piece of work. Then the next step. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/curiosity-…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 18/08/2026
I've launched Kody Video on ProductHunt! I don't know how this thing works, but I think getting upvotes is good so if you're over there, give it an upload if you think I earned it! producthunt.com/products/kod... 👈 ⬆︎
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Kody Video: Share your life experiences with the people you love | Product Hunt
Kody Video is an open source, offline web application you use to record video clips of your life experiences. When you've got all the clips you want, hit "Go" and it turns into a single video you can ...
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 18/08/2026
The craft "dying" is your opportunity. Most developers will hand judgment to the agent. The differentiators won't. Your job is ownership. The agent mirrors what you care about. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWs6L3KLAZc…
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The craft "dying" is your OPPORTUNITY
People worry AI is destroying the craft. That fear is the opening: most developers will hand judgment to the agent. The differentiators own the system, the UX, and what the agent learns to care about.
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 17/08/2026
Writing the code is the replaceable part. Kent and Ronan Berder on why you need one layer above and below: browser under JS, business around the feature. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/write-it-d…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 14/08/2026
Ronan Berder on consulting blowups: clients paid for a vendor, his team acted like a partner who could say no. That gap ended relationships more than quality issu Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/write-it-d…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 13/08/2026
Join me, @t3.gg, @angiejones.tech, and @johnlindquist.com for a quick workshop on agentic engineering with mega.dev! It's free on August 25th! It's time!
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 13/08/2026
A giant AGENTS.md feels responsible. It is often just burning tokens. Claude Code cut ~80% of its system prompt. Make the always-on file a router, not an encyclopedia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cUEIh4jMrQ…
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Stop Burning Your Context Cash
A giant AGENTS.md feels responsible. It is often just burning tokens. Kent walks the Claude Code 80% cut, a research paper that found +20% cost for little gain, a live prune of his own file, and homework: make the always-on file a router, not an encyclopedia.
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 12/08/2026
Make something people want is incomplete. @grinich.bsky.social on building the economic engine that gets you through winter. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/talk-to-us…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 12/08/2026
Ronan Berder on design process: no boundaries means no creativity. Without a process, you cannot consistently deliver good, so you will never consistently deliver Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/write-it-d…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 11/08/2026
Most people use an agent to write the code. I used one to decide what to build: gather evidence, argue primitives, keep the judgment. New Better with Kent - a real product call, up to the moment I type go. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cTv5JSVvDc…
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Use AI to make product decisions
Most people use agents to write code. Watch Kent use one to decide what to build: gather evidence, argue primitives, peel cleanup into side quests, keep the judgment - and only then type go.
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 08/08/2026
Engineers can nail the API and still miss the point. Ronan Berder on why product vision has to get hammered into every session. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/write-it-d…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 07/08/2026
Ben Ilegbodu on measuring internal tooling: silence can be fine, but you still need feedback, usage data, and observability. Same product instincts. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/developer-…
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 06/08/2026
I'm doing something new and it's gonna be MEGA epic 🔥 I want you 🫵 to be a MEGA dev, so I'm joining Jon Lindquist, Theo Browne, and Angie Jones to teach you the skills you need to succeed with AI agents. 4 instructors. 4 weeks. 1 mega.dev
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 06/08/2026
Agents are doing the work you did months ago. That is not a threat. That is how abstraction travel works. Climb. Do not cling. New Better with Kent: climb the timeline, then hand one job off this week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2gdCCc3N-g…
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How to increase your leverage with agents
Agents are doing the work you did months ago. That is not doom - it is how abstraction travel works.
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 06/08/2026
Agents are doing the work you did months ago. That is not a threat. That is how abstraction travel works. Climb. Do not cling. New Better with Kent: climb the timeline, then hand one job off this week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2gdCCc3N-g…
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How to increase your leverage with agents
Agents are doing the work you did months ago. That is not doom - it is how abstraction travel works. Kent shows the climb-dont-cling timeline, a conductor-of-orchestrators example, and a one-week homework handoff.
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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 05/08/2026
I switched to Android and lost my favorite little video app. So I rebuilt the idea for the web: hold to record, arrange clips on a timeline, tap Go, and it exports one video to share. Everything stays on your device. Kody Video is live today: kody.video
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