The Last Software Engineer
The most durable skills you can develop
Your Tools
You
The work
The work
The work
Your Tools
(agents)
You
What do you actually do here?
What do you actually do here?
prompt engineering
context engineering
loops 🌀
queues
graphs đź“Š
sub agents
flow engineering
fine-tuning
*automated* prompt engineering
reasoning
agents
rag
vector databases
mcp
cli
vibe coding
skills
orchestration
computer use
I'm Tired
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The work
Artificial General Intelligence
The work
(Almost) Artificial General Intelligence
The work
(Almost) Artificial General Intelligence
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What's happening
here?
Product Engineering
A recovering software implementation educator
Hi, I'm Kent C. Dodds
What a product engineer
looks like...
Think in primitives
Think in primitives
Think in primitives
Make data-driven decisions
Make data-driven decisions
Understand / design the system
Understand / design the system
Understand / design the system
Think about sustainability
Think about sustainability
Think about sustainability
Think about sustainability
What if I'm wrong?
You are here
Product Engineering: A hallmark of history's greatest Software Engineers
Product Engineering: A hallmark of history's greatest Software Engineers
Margaret Hamilton
Paul Buchheit
Product Engineering: A hallmark of history's greatest Software Engineers
Margaret Hamilton
Paul Buchheit
Kevin Systrom
Product Engineering: A hallmark of history's greatest Software Engineers
Margaret Hamilton
Paul Buchheit
Kevin Systrom
Jan Koum
Product Engineering: A hallmark of history's greatest Software Engineers
Margaret Hamilton
Paul Buchheit
Kevin Systrom
Jan Koum
Product Engineering: A hallmark of history's greatest Software Engineers
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Margaret Hamilton
Paul Buchheit
Kevin Systrom
Jan Koum
Product Engineering: A hallmark of history's greatest Software Engineers
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
You
Margaret Hamilton
capturing got easy
taste didn’t
math got cheap
interpretation didn’t
autopilot flew more
accountability still matters
transactions got automated
advice and trust didn’t
You got this
We got this
Thank you!
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