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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 30/09/2026

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 · 29/09/2026

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

If you'd rather watch me play it:

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 05/08/2026

Ronan Berder's homework for engineers: write down what you are struggling with and organize your thoughts. However smart you think you are, the gaps show up on pa Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/write-it-d…

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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 02/08/2026

The fastest agentic upgrade is often boring: notice the prompts you repeat, then turn them into skills. Ben Ilegbodu on accelerating development. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/developer-…

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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 27/07/2026

Claude Code has real upside. But @anniesexton.com says it's also made engineering problem-solving kind of boring - and she's still figuring out where that joy goes. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/curiosity-…

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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 25/07/2026

Languages and frameworks change fast. Robert C. Martin says the rules of software architecture have stayed remarkably constant. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/architectu…

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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 24/07/2026

Tricking people into learning is a real skill. @anniesexton.com on pulling in curiosity with a hook, then delivering something genuinely fascinating once they're there. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/curiosity-…

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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 22/07/2026

Robert C. Martin says getting real value from AI agents means walking away from the code as the main review surface. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/architectu…

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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 22/07/2026

Who pays the bills shapes the roadmap. Sean Roberts on big customers, real needs, and the tickets that look urgent but aren't. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/the-techni…

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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 21/07/2026

Ten times faster in the wrong direction is still wrong. Sean Roberts on quality, sales conversations, and sane AI speed. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/the-techni…

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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 20/07/2026

Agents are great at writing code. Michael Shimeles' advice: revisit the old engineering books so you can actually steer them. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/taste-simp…

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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 18/07/2026

Is the mind computable? Grady Booch on what Church-Turing actually says - and why software is still very far from sentience. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/software-a…

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Kent C. Dodds 🌌 @kentcdodds.com · 17/07/2026

Domain knowledge beats guessing. Michael Shimeles explains why useful apps start with people who actually know the problem. Full episode and notes: www.epicproduct.engineer/taste-simp…

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