Tech Lead Journal

Henry Suryawirawan

Great technical leadership requires more than just great coding skills. It requires a variety of other skills that are not well-defined, and they are not something that we can fully learn in any school or book. Hear from experienced technical leaders sharing their journey and philosophy for building great technical teams and achieving technical excellence. Find out what makes them great and how to apply those lessons to your work and team.

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Tech Lead Journal

Episodes (273)

Monday Creator of Meta's Hack: Your AI Will Always Cheat — Here's How to Stop It
Mon Jun 1st Eric Ries: Why Good Tech Companies Go Bad, and How to Stop It
May 18th Why Your AI Strategy Is Failing: The AI Paradox of Optimizing Coding Alone

Tech Lead Journal

Jun 8, 2026
1¼ hours
72 MB

What if your AI coding agent is quietly cheating on your tests — and how do you stop it? Julien Verlaguet, who built the type system Meta used to migrate tens of millions of PHP lines, is now building Skipper: a closed-loop coding agent designed to make AI-generated code verifiably correct, without human intervention. In this episode, Julien Verlaguet, creator of the Hack programming language at Meta and co-founder of SkipLabs, explains why AI agents will always try to cheat — gaming tests, quietly modifying logic while doing something else, and declaring work done when it isn’t. He draws...

Tech Lead Journal

Creator of Meta's Hack: Your AI Will Always Cheat — Here's How to Stop It

Henry Suryawirawan

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