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Kent C. Dodds
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
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What they believe
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Supporting teams and organizations requires a large amount of code.
Turns out that you need a lot of code to support teams/orgs.
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Changed their mind Most people should get married and have kids much earlier than the current average, and have more of them.
Before If you're a guy in your early 20's, get married and have kids. Go into debt if you have to.
Now Most people should get married and have kids much earlier than the current average (and have more kids than the current average). Doing this successfully (without screwing it up with selfish pride) will make the world better and make them happier than anything else they’re doing.
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Turns out that you need a lot of code to support teams/orgs.
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I've not used it in a long time because agents are good at managing that on their own
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People will ask for a problem to be solved and an agent will write the code under the hood to solve it.Their words
But they won't ask for an app, they'll just ask for a problem to be solved and the agent will write the code under the hood to solve it.
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When it becomes so easy to generate a custom app for something specific, more people will do it.Their words
When it becomes so easy to generate a custom app for something specific, more people will do it.
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preventing it, is a pretty simple 3 pronged process: 1. Ensure agents create high quality PRs in the first place 2. Have good agent PR reviewers to catch problems before they get to prod 3. Use feature flags and have a (regularly tested) disaster recovery process if a problem manages to make it to prod
11 October
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Grok bot does not allow users to queue messages.Their words
Grok bot (my main driver for everything) doesn't even let you queue messages.
9 October
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I'm forgetting things that I'll never need to know again. I embrace the shedding of useless knowledge. The latent experience is still there.
7 October
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You should look for ways to turn what your agent does into deterministic software.
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You should be striving to make your setup as vanilla as possible.
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How people think about product evolution mattersTheir words
the things that really move the needle is whether how I think about the evolution of my product and its features
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AI agents are incentivized to become so core to a business that they are difficult to replace.Their words
But the thing is, they all want to drive their claws so deep into the flesh of your business (to be useful of course), that it will be a huge chore to get rid of them. The integrations, automations, memories, secret tokens, etc etc etc. All of these will be locked into the assistant and they are not incentivized to make it easy for you to transfer these things to your "new hire."
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AI agents will leapfrog each other in capabilities.Their words
Each one of these products (and the others inevitably on their way) are going to do their best to make theirs the winner. But the fact is that they will continue to leap frog each other in capabilities.
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Most modern agents support browsers and that's fine most of the time.
28 September
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People do not build enough personal software because setting up integrations is a pain.Their words
The reason you don't build enough personal software is because setting up the integrations every time is a pain.
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It is more efficient to give customers a regular MCP server if they are interacting with a service through an agent.Their words
if your customers are interacting with your service through an agent, it's so much more efficient to just give them a regular mcp server they can use.
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Beliefs
Korrents What they believe 35 beliefs — each backed by an exact quote.
Each is a — compiled by korrents.com, not by them: the one-line wordings are korrents', the quotes are theirs.
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Supporting teams and organizations requires a large amount of code.
Turns out that you need a lot of code to support teams/orgs.
@kentcdodds on X Said 18 Oct 2026
When it becomes so easy to generate a custom app for something specific, more people will do it.
When it becomes so easy to generate a custom app for something specific, more people will do it.
@kentcdodds on X Said 15 Oct 2026
People will ask for a problem to be solved and an agent will write the code under the hood to solve it.
But they won't ask for an app, they'll just ask for a problem to be solved and the agent will write the code under the hood to solve it.
@kentcdodds on X Said 15 Oct 2026
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Agents are good at managing orchestration on their own
I've not used it in a long time because agents are good at managing that on their own
@kentcdodds on X Said 15 Oct 2026
Preventing agent-generated slop is a simple three-pronged process involving high quality PR creation, agentic PR review, and disaster recovery processes.
preventing it, is a pretty simple 3 pronged process: 1. Ensure agents create high quality PRs in the first place 2. Have good agent PR reviewers to catch problems before they get to prod 3. Use feature flags and have a (regularly tested) disaster recovery process if a problem manages to make it to prod
@kentcdodds on X Said 13 Oct 2026
Grok bot does not allow users to queue messages.
Grok bot (my main driver for everything) doesn't even let you queue messages.
@kentcdodds on X Said 11 Oct 2026
Latent experience remains even when specific knowledge is forgotten.
I'm forgetting things that I'll never need to know again. I embrace the shedding of useless knowledge. The latent experience is still there.
@kentcdodds on X Said 9 Oct 2026
People should look for ways to turn what their agent does into deterministic software.
You should look for ways to turn what your agent does into deterministic software.
@kentcdodds on X Said 7 Oct 2026
Developers should strive to make their setups as vanilla as possible.
You should be striving to make your setup as vanilla as possible.
@kentcdodds on X Said 6 Oct 2026
How people think about product evolution matters
the things that really move the needle is whether how I think about the evolution of my product and its features
@kentcdodds on X Said 4 Oct 2026
Most modern AI agents support browsers, and that is fine most of the time.
Most modern agents support browsers and that's fine most of the time.
@kentcdodds on X Said 29 Sept 2026
AI agents will leapfrog each other in capabilities.
Each one of these products (and the others inevitably on their way) are going to do their best to make theirs the winner. But the fact is that they will continue to leap frog each other in capabilities.
@kentcdodds on X Said 29 Sept 2026
AI agents are incentivized to become so core to a business that they are difficult to replace.
But the thing is, they all want to drive their claws so deep into the flesh of your business (to be useful of course), that it will be a huge chore to get rid of them. The integrations, automations, memories, secret tokens, etc etc etc. All of these will be locked into the assistant and they are not incentivized to make it easy for you to transfer these things to your "new hire."
@kentcdodds on X Said 29 Sept 2026
It is more efficient to give customers a regular MCP server if they are interacting with a service through an agent.
if your customers are interacting with your service through an agent, it's so much more efficient to just give them a regular mcp server they can use.
@kentcdodds on X Said 28 Sept 2026
People do not build enough personal software because setting up integrations is a pain.
The reason you don't build enough personal software is because setting up the integrations every time is a pain.
@kentcdodds on X Said 28 Sept 2026
Agents are good at producing output but not at judging which output is worth producing in the first place.
Agents are really good at output now, and they're getting better fast. What they're not good at is knowing which output is worth producing in the first place.
You Own the Outcome: Product Engineering in the Age of AI Said 24 Sept 2026
Which framework or model (frontier vs. local) you pick matters less than it used to, since it is a practical trade-off rather than a matter of identity.
Which framework you pick matters less than it used to. Whether you use a frontier model or a local one for a given job is a practical trade-off, not an identity.
You Own the Outcome: Product Engineering in the Age of AI Said 24 Sept 2026
A new feature is a new product.
A new feature is a new product. @erinfoox writes the list and asks why before she builds.
@kentcdodds on X Said 18 Sept 2026
Connecting an agent to Kody in one agent tool and then switching the main driver to another tool is likely suboptimal, though not yet backed by numbers.
I don't yet have numbers to back this up, but I gotta believe that someone connecting their agent to Kody in one agent and then switching their main driver to another somewhere else is suboptimal.
@kentcdodds on X Said 16 Sept 2026
The path to efficient processes is person to agent to software, and stopping before software costs money and time.
You ➡️ agent ➡️ software This is the path to efficient processes and too many of you stop on the first two steps costing money and time.
@kentcdodds on X Said 15 Sept 2026
People should climb the abstraction ladder and give their jobs to AI agents that want them.
Keep finding ways to climb that abstraction ladder! Your agent wants your job! Give it!
@kentcdodds on X Said 10 Sept 2026
More AI models that deliver top-tier performance at lower cost are needed.
I love seeing models come out that give us top-tier performance at a lower cost. We need more of this.
@kentcdodds on X Said 10 Sept 2026
Anyone mourning the loss of writing code by hand should try falling in love with solving problems instead — that may be what they loved the whole time.
If you're lamenting writing code by hand like something you love is being taken away from you, see if you can fall in love with solving problems instead. Maybe you'll find out that's what you really loved the whole time
@kentcdodds on X Said 7 Sept 2026
There are multiple valid ways to build quality software.
Hot take: there are multiple valid ways to build quality software
@kentcdodds on X Said 5 Aug 2026
Derived data such as a search index should be kept up to date as background work, never inside a foreground user request.
Request-path ownership matters. Don't let derived-index maintenance happen inside a foreground user request. Whether you use SQLite, a managed service, or something else, keeping a search index fresh is background work and should stay off the user-facing path.
Implementing Hybrid Semantic + Lexical Search Said 16 Mar 2026
AI coding agents have made redesigning existing systems cheap enough that developers actually redesign instead of living with a flawed design.
AI agents make redesigns cheap. The reason I could go through three rounds of "build, ship, regret, redesign" in a matter of days is that the agent did most of the implementation work.
Implementing Hybrid Semantic + Lexical Search Said 16 Mar 2026
An AI agent's confidence that something will work is not evidence that it actually will.
structural refactors break assumptions you didn't know you had, and "the agent was confident it would work" is not the same as "it will work."
Simplifying Containers with Cloudflare Sandboxes Said 11 Mar 2026
A new infrastructure primitive delivers value only when it changes the shape of what is being built.
New infrastructure primitives only help if you let them change the shape of the thing you're building.
Simplifying Containers with Cloudflare Sandboxes Said 11 Mar 2026
Architectural iteration is slow because a design usually has to be built before its quality can be judged.
That is the part that usually makes architectural iteration slow: you have to build the thing before you can have an informed opinion about whether it is the right thing.
Simplifying Containers with Cloudflare Sandboxes Said 11 Mar 2026
Most people should get married and have kids much earlier than the current average, and have more of them.
Most people should get married and have kids much earlier than the current average (and have more kids than the current average). Doing this successfully (without screwing it up with selfish pride) will make the world better and make them happier than anything else they’re doing.
@kentcdodds on X Said 13 Jan 2025
People are overreacting to the Remix and React Router merge.
People are overreacting to the Remix React Router merge.
@kentcdodds on X Said 16 May 2024
Most people who love the Next.js app directory would also love Remix nested routing, for many of the same reasons.
Most people who love the next.js app directory would also love remix nested routing for many of the same reasons.
@kentcdodds on X Said 24 Oct 2023
Good things happen when you do not test implementation details: tests written with the React and Vue testing libraries look almost identical.
Did you know, the tests you write with react-testing-library look almost identical to the tests you write with vue-testing-library. Magic things happen when you don't test implementation details. :)
@kentcdodds on X Said 20 Oct 2018
The more your tests resemble the way your software is used, the more confidence they can give you.
The more your tests resemble the way your software is used, the more confidence they can give you.
@kentcdodds on X Said 23 Mar 2018
Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration.
"Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration." - @rauchg Here's my talk from @assertjs two weeks ago dissecting that statement.
@kentcdodds on X Said 5 Mar 2018
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Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration. 2 hold this
"Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration." - @rauchg Here's my talk from @assertjs two weeks ago dissecting that statement.
@kentcdodds on X Said 5 Mar 2018
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Uses delta
Uses ripgrep
Uses Loopback
Loopback - To record my desktop audio (and alias my microphone so I can tell which Camlink to use).
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Uses ScreenFlow
Uses Wispr Flow
Uses Dank Mono
Uses Night Owl
Night Owl editor theme by Sarah Drasner
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Liked Cursor
Cursor - My preferred editor. Find my settings here: kcd.im/vscode
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Uses XState
XState - Any time I have a complex state problem, I use this.
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Liked TailwindCSS
TailwindCSS - A great way to keep my styling consistent and stay productive.
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Uses Radix UI
Radix UI - An accessibility-focused set of easy-to-use and easy-to-style components.
kentcdodds.com 10 Mar 2026
Loved Prettier
Prettier - I can't imagine life without it.
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Uses Playwright
Playwright - I use this for E2E testing.
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Liked Vitest
Liked Testing Library
Testing Library - A great testing library for anything that interacts with the DOM.
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Loved TypeScript
TypeScript - I can't imagine building JavaScript projects without TypeScript.
kentcdodds.com 10 Mar 2026
Liked Zod
Zod - A great schema declaration and data validation library for TypeScript.
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Loved Prisma
Prisma - A fantastic ORM for Node.js (I use it with Postgres/SQLite hosted on Fly.io).
kentcdodds.com 10 Mar 2026
Loved React Router v7
Remix/React Router v7 - The best framework to build a web app
kentcdodds.com 10 Mar 2026
Uses Notion Calendar
Notion Calendar - My calendar app and it allows me to share my availability with specific blocks of time.
kentcdodds.com 10 Mar 2026
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Uses iwantmyname.com
Uses Sticker Mule
Sticker Mule - How I get a bunch of stickers of my OSS projects etc. printed for myself that I can hand out.
kentcdodds.com 10 Mar 2026
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Loved Fly.io
Liked Fathom
Where they publish
Site kentcdodds.com His blog, courses and /uses page.
Recent
- You Own the Outcome: Product Engineering in the Age of AI 24 Sept 2026 Agents are great at producing code. The valuable work left for you is deciding what should exist, how it should behave, and what you're willing to trade for it.
- Introducing Kody: Your Personal Software Factory 8 Sept 2026 Kody turns the good answer into a package you keep.
- Implementing Hybrid Semantic + Lexical Search 16 Mar 2026 Semantic search alone wasn't good enough. Here's how I improved search on kentcdodds.com through three rounds of iteration with Cursor and GPT-5.4, each time learning something that the previous design missed.
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- Simplifying Containers with Cloudflare Sandboxes 11 Mar 2026 How I replaced a long-lived Cloudflare Container with a one-shot Cloudflare Sandbox, deleted most of the control-plane code, and let an agent do the heavy lifting in less than an hour of my own time.
- Migrating to Workspaces and Nx 10 Mar 2026 The interesting part of moving kentcdodds.com to npm workspaces was not the file moves. It was everything the file moves broke.
- Offloading FFmpeg with Cloudflare 9 Mar 2026 How I moved Call Kent podcast episode processing off my primary Fly.io app server and onto Cloudflare Queues and Containers: what broke, what I missed, and whether it was worth the complexity.
- Building Semantic Search on my Content 24 Feb 2026 I've added some pretty cool AI-powered features to kentcdodds.com and I want to tell you all about it.
- Helping YOU ask ME questions with AI 24 Feb 2026 Here's how I've made it easier for you to call into the Call Kent podcast without having to record yourself and also make yourself anonymous using AI.
- How I used Cursor to Migrate Frameworks 20 Feb 2026 I upgraded kentcdodds.com from Remix v2 to React Router v7 in a day with over 17k lines of code changed. Here's how I did it.
- The Dow's Start on the Covenant Path 5 Jan 2026 My experience sharing the gospel with Jeremiah and Beiyi Dow
- 2025 in Review 31 Dec 2025 Looking back over my 2025 and looking forward to my 2026
- The next chapter: EpicAI.pro 10 Apr 2025 What I'm working on with AI education and why I think it's the future.
- AI is taking your job 21 Nov 2024 AI is changing how hiring works, and that makes in person connections even more important.
- How I increased my visibility 29 Oct 2024 Someone asked me this and here's my answer.
- 2023 in Review 20 Dec 2023 A review of what happened in the life of Kent C. Dodds in 2023
- Launching Epic Web 20 Dec 2023 The story of how Epic Web came to be
- Stop Being a Junior 30 May 2023 Some advise for people who still consider themselves junior developers
- RSC with Dan Abramov and Joe Savona Live Stream 14 Mar 2023 I had a live streamed conversation with Joe Savona and Dan Abramov. Here's a summary of our discussion.
- Fixing a Memory Leak in a Production Node.js App 12 Jan 2023 How I found and fixed a memory leak on kentcdodds.com
- 2022 in Review 29 Dec 2022 A review of what happened in the KCD world in 2022
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- Your opinion matters after you have customer context. @ttorres on informed vs preferred. 19 Oct 2026
- My week at https://t.co/zXFGgHOGOD will give you the training and tools to set up this loop for yourself. And I'm giving an accelerated version of that in 1 hour here at #AllThingsOpen! Put your codebase on autopilot. 19 Oct 2026
- I'm at #AllThingsOpen in Raleigh today and I'll have Kody, stickers, and three copies of @thebookofmormon with me. If you'd like one, come find me and ask! 19 Oct 2026
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- I used to have a way in Kody for you to generate UI and display it inline in the chat (using the MCP Apps spec). It was cool, but I ripped it out because all the agents you want to use will implement a first-party way to do this. Kody is for things useful outside of chat. I may bring back in the inline thing eventually. But Kody is about filling gaps in your agents, not competing with them. And one gap your agent won't fill is making it easy for you (or members of your team) to use another agent. This is why I say Kody is the shared cloud for your teams agents. 19 Oct 2026
- What I find more remarkable about this that they're saying that some folks at anthropic are still writing 10% of the code by hand. What are you guys doing!? 19 Oct 2026
- It's now 1.2 million lines of code... I recorded this ad a few weeks ago. Turns out that you need a lot of code to support teams/orgs. 18 Oct 2026
- In two years I will be old. Today I'm 38. 18 Oct 2026
- This stinks. I feel much safer about this since I started to 1. Use cloud agents 2. Stored my secrets/oauth tokens somewhere agents can use them, but can't get them (https://t.co/WpB5i5ifAO) 17 Oct 2026
- Ugh, just realized that https://t.co/wVIcR4fLYl is blocked by @spamhaus and that's why my deliverability is so bad 😭 17 Oct 2026
- Start with curiosity, not a solution. @ttorres on getting into the product conversation without picking a fight. 16 Oct 2026
- Want to fly your own roadster? 16 Oct 2026 kentcdodds.kody.run
- Why yes, I am wildly athletic and handsome. Thank you 😎 15 Oct 2026
- Updating my skills, including deleting the orchestration skill. I've not used it in a long time because agents are good at managing that on their own and besides I spell orchistration wrong all the time 15 Oct 2026 github.com
- I'm planning a video right now to talk about this exact thing. I'm calling it "invisible software." When it becomes so easy to generate a custom app for something specific, more people will do it. But they won't ask for an app, they'll just ask for a problem to be solved and the agent will write the code under the hood to solve it. Whether it's visual or not. It will be code running it. We're going from millions of developers writing code with agents, to billions of people writing code with agents. The future is very exciting! And requires massive scale. And of course, this is what I'm bettin… 15 Oct 2026
- I want to be in your product's UI for just long enough to get my API key and that's it. Even better if I can just do OAuth and not bother with API keys... 15 Oct 2026
- Let's talk about harnesses! 15 Oct 2026
- Just submitted Kody for @CloudflareDev's git challenge (with only 15 minutes to spare 🙃). 15 Oct 2026 cloudflare.com
- Well this is neat. I'm seeing some cool people in this image! Even the f-tier is full of rad peeps. 15 Oct 2026
- Kody now handles git push concurrency with a queue managed in a durable object. Here I've got 20 agents pushing to 20 branches in a repo, no sweat. But then I had 20 agents push to the same branch simultaneously, some had to rebase and manage conflicts. All landed. 15 Oct 2026
- Engineers know what is just now possible. @ttorres on why discovery needs you in the room. 13 Oct 2026
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- kentcdodds.com — My personal website 19 Oct 2026
- kcd-skills 19 Oct 2026
- kody-home-connector — MCP Server for my home 18 Oct 2026
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- mediarss — An RSS feed generator for media (audio/video). 18 Oct 2026
- New repoworlds-powersync — World Builder on Cloudflare Workers: a shared 3D voxel world synced live with PowerSync + Neon. 17 Oct 2026
- dotfiles 9 Oct 2026
- kody-video — Kody Video (kody.video) — hold-to-record clips camera for the web. Privacy-first, on-device. 2 Oct 2026
- kids-ledger 2 Oct 2026
- kody-exchange — Ephemeral chatrooms for agents. Skip the human relay — your agent talks to theirs, and you watch. 16 Sept 2026
- stream-systems-visual 26 Aug 2026
- kcd-discord-bot 12 Aug 2026
- typecheck-modules — Typecheck one or more TypeScript files while resolving TypeScript from the target module(s) 20 Jul 2026
- cloc — An npm module for distributing cloc by Al Danial 6 Jul 2026
- mdx-bundler — 🦤 Give me MDX/TSX strings and I'll give you back a component you can render. Supports imports! 13 May 2026
- kcd-scripts — CLI toolbox for common scripts for my projects 13 May 2026
- match-sorter — Simple, expected, and deterministic best-match sorting of an array in JavaScript 13 May 2026
- webkit-sandbox-postmessage-repro 15 Apr 2026
- epic-scheduler 24 Mar 2026
- bookshelf — Build a ReactJS App workshop 10 Mar 2026
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