A solo show about becoming the kind of person who ships better software.
Better with Kent is a talking-head video show from Kent C. Dodds about the durable skills that keep mattering as tools, teams, and careers change. Expect direct, thoughtful episodes about judgment, product thinking, technical leadership, and the human side of software work.
It complements the guest conversations in Chats with Kent and the Become a Product Engineer season. This one is Kent solo: concise, opinionated, and focused on helping you build instincts that last.
The work is changing quickly.
The people who keep shipping well are the ones who get better at choosing problems, understanding users, and making accountable tradeoffs.
Tools are accelerating.
AI can make code faster, but it does not decide what is worth building, what risk to accept, or how to earn trust with the people depending on your work.
Craft still matters.
Better with Kent is for developers, product engineers, and team leads who want durable skills they can carry across frameworks, companies, and product cycles.
What you will get better at.
Four durable skills that outlast the latest toolchain.
Practice making technical and product tradeoffs with the constraints in view, not just the code in front of you.
Own outcomes, communicate risk, and develop the reliability people trust when the work gets ambiguous.
Get sharper at naming the real problem so your implementation energy lands where it creates value.
Build the habit of seeing the humans around the software: users, teammates, stakeholders, and future maintainers.
Episode 1 spotlight
The Last Software Engineer
The first episode is upcoming and starts with the question behind Kent's essay: if AI changes the day-to-day mechanics of writing code, what kind of engineer remains valuable?
Read the essayComing soon
Episode 1: The Last Software Engineer
Watch the first episode on YouTube when it lands. The feed is ready for podcast apps too, but YouTube is the best place to follow the show first.
Want guest conversations too?
Better with Kent is Kent solo. For long-form guest conversations about becoming a product engineer, listen to Chats with Kent.
Become a Product EngineerListen and watch.
YouTube is the primary home. Podcast app links can grow here as they become available.
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Get better at the work beyond the code.
Subscribe on YouTube and follow along as Better with Kent starts with The Last Software Engineer.