Peppe Silletti
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Why AI Makes Empowered Engineers More Important Than Ever | Marty Cagan (SVPG founder)
What happens to engineering judgement when AI makes building software faster? Marty Cagan, founder of Silicon Valley Product Group and co-author of EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products, explains why engineers need a voice in deciding what to build.
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How Engineers Can Get Involved in Product Work | Teresa Torres (Continuous Discovery Habits author)
How can engineers get involved in product work when they usually receive a roadmap, finished designs, and a ticket to implement? Teresa Torres, product discovery coach and author of Continuous Discovery Habits, explains how engineers can participate while the team is still learning about customer…
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How Engineers Can Develop Business Sense | Arnon Cavaeiro (Product Leader)
Arnon Cavaeiro is a product leader who argues that engineers need enough business context to judge the problems they work on. In this episode, we explore how to build that judgement: understand where revenue comes from, what drives costs, and which customer problems matter enough to act on.
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Why Hardcore Technical Focus Still Matters Big Time | Uncle Bob
Robert C. Martin, author of Clean Code and Clean Architecture, explains how engineers can use static analysis, testing and technical judgement to steer AI coding agents towards better software.
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How to Interview Users Like a Pro (Even If You're an Engineer) | Sara Iacozza, Senior UX Researcher
Everyone tells engineers to talk to users. But what should you ask, and how do you turn the answers into better product decisions? Sara Iacozza is a Senior
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How Engineers Get Better at UX Design | Jon Yablonski (Mixpanel’s senior product designer)
Jon Yablonski, author of Laws of UX and senior product designer at Mixpanel, explains how software engineers can train their design eye, apply UX principles, and use AI while continuing to develop their own judgment.
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How to Become a Product-Minded Engineer in the AI Era
Drew Hoskins is a senior staff software engineer at Stripe and the author of O’Reilly’s The Product-Minded Engineer. After more than 20 years in engineering at companies including Microsoft, Meta, and Stripe, he moved into product management at Temporal before returning to engineering.
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Why "Just Coding" Isn't Enough Anymore
Meikel Ratz is a product engineer at PostHog, where he leads the messaging team. In this episode, we unpack the product thinking behind that role and what it takes to become a product-minded engineer
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The Agile Dream Finally Came True | AI Made It Happen
AI is reshaping product development and the future of work for every role in the tech industry. Every product team used to work the same way: slow discovery, designers as bottlenecks, agile scrum ceremonies that meant nothing because the rest of the company was still doing…
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Thinking in Product Outcomes | The Shift Every Engineer Needs to Make
You shipped the feature, closed the ticket, merged the PR — but do you have any idea if it actually mattered? If you want to know how to be a better product engineer, this episode is for you.
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You're Thinking About AI Wrong. Here's Why Product Engineers Are Thriving
AI is writing code. But can it replace the engineer who understands the customer? Here's why Product Engineers are the future — and how to become one. -- Every software engineer is feeling it right now — the anxiety.
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Why I'd Hire a Junior Engineer Over a 10-Year Senior
If I had to choose between a junior engineer and a senior with 10 years of experience who's only ever focused on writing code, I'd pick the junior. Every time.
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