A podcast about becoming a product engineer — the engineer who sweats the user experience as much as the code, treats restraint as a skill, and knows the "right" architecture still loses if it sends people home furious. Kent C. Dodds sits down with practitioners building software people actually use — at Cloudflare, Thoughtworks, Crunchy Data, on Solo, on OpenCode, and beyond — to unpack how they decide what tto ship.
Expect practical conversations on shortening feedback loops, reading support emails with empathy, listening past feature requests to find the real problem, shipping vertical slices end-to-end, and using AI agents for exploration and critique instead of just faster implementation. Every episode closes with homework and resources you can use this week.