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    <title>#267 - The Father of AI Assistant on Why Joy Comes Before Success - Kevin Surace</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:32:10 &#43;0800</pubDate>
    <author>Henry Suryawirawan</author>
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    <description><![CDATA[Kevin Surace, the Father of AI Assistant behind the tech licensed by Siri and Alexa, discusses how agentic AI is reshaping software development and testing, why junior developers must adapt, and the science behind his new book, Joy-Success Cycle.]]></description>
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    <title>#266 - Software Engineering Laws Every Developer Must Know in the AI Era - Milan Milanovic</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:23:03 &#43;0800</pubDate>
    <author>Henry Suryawirawan</author>
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    <description><![CDATA[Milan Milanovic, author of Laws of Software Engineering, returns to unpack Gall's Law, Conway's Law, Goodhart's Law, Hofstadter's Law, and the Dunning-Kruger effect, and why AI amplifies rather than replaces these timeless principles.]]></description>
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    <title>#263 - Ex-Gojek CTO: Why the Age of AI Rewards Builders as Judgment Becomes Expensive - Ajey Gore</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:09:07 &#43;1000</pubDate>
    <author>Henry Suryawirawan</author>
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    <description><![CDATA[Ajey Gore, former Group CTO of Gojek and Operating Partner at Peak XV Partners, reflects on stepping away from a hard-charging career to create “slack,” and shares why the AI era rewards builders who master judgment and engineering practices over developers who just type code.]]></description>
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    <title>#252 - Why Senior Engineers Struggle as Tech Leads: The 3 Mindset Shifts That Fix It - Anemari Fiser</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:56:24 &#43;0800</pubDate>
    <author>Henry Suryawirawan</author>
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    <description><![CDATA[Anemari Fiser, author of “Leveling Up as a Tech Lead,” reveals why senior engineers struggle as tech leads and shares the three critical mindset shifts they must get right to thrive as tech leads in the age of AI.]]></description>
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    <title>#248 - Stop Telling Yourself You&#39;re Bad at “People Stuff” - Martijn Versteeg</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:47:37 &#43;0800</pubDate>
    <author>Henry Suryawirawan</author>
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    <description><![CDATA[Think you're just 'not a people person'? Most tech leaders quietly believe this about themselves, and it's exactly what's holding them back. Martijn Versteeg, organizational psychologist and former CPTO, shows that people skills follow learnable systems, just like code.]]></description>
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    <title>#244 - Gene Kim: Vibe Coding Solved What I Couldn&#39;t in 13 YEARS</title>
    <link>https://techleadjournal.dev/episodes/244/</link>
    <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:19:03 &#43;0800</pubDate>
    <author>Henry Suryawirawan</author>
    <guid>https://techleadjournal.dev/episodes/244/</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[Is the era of writing code by hand coming to an end? Gene Kim explains how vibe coding solved problems he abandoned for 13 years and why the best days of coding might be ahead of us.]]></description>
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    <title>#243 - CTO Coach: Why Tech Companies are Really Laying Off Developers (It’s Not Just AI) - Stephan Schmidt</title>
    <link>https://techleadjournal.dev/episodes/243/</link>
    <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:19 &#43;0800</pubDate>
    <author>Henry Suryawirawan</author>
    <guid>https://techleadjournal.dev/episodes/243/</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[Why are tech companies really laying off developers? Stephan Schmidt, CTO coach and author of “The Amazing CTO's Missing Manual,” shares an uncomfortable truth: it has nothing to do with AI efficiency and everything to do with running out of ideas.]]></description>
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    <title>#240 - AI as Your Thought Partner: Break Boundaries &amp; Do What You Never Could Before - Greg Shove</title>
    <link>https://techleadjournal.dev/episodes/240/</link>
    <pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 22:38:02 &#43;0800</pubDate>
    <author>Henry Suryawirawan</author>
    <guid>https://techleadjournal.dev/episodes/240/</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[Are you making critical decisions without consulting AI? In this episode, Greg Shove, CEO of Section, argues it's now irresponsible for any leader to make high-stakes decisions without talking to AI first. He shares how AI allows us to jump capability boundaries and do things we simply couldn't do before.]]></description>
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    <title>#230 - Technical Coaching in the Age of AI with Samman (Ensemble) - Emily Bache</title>
    <link>https://techleadjournal.dev/episodes/230/</link>
    <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:05:46 &#43;0800</pubDate>
    <author>Henry Suryawirawan</author>
    <guid>https://techleadjournal.dev/episodes/230/</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[Struggling with technical debt and code quality? Learn how a technical coach can help your team level up. In this episode, Emily Bache, a Samman technical coach, shares her proven method for building better engineering teams through structured learning and collaborative coding.]]></description>
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    <title>#228 - Leading Transformational Engineering Teams with Craft in the AI Era - Mohan Krishnan</title>
    <link>https://techleadjournal.dev/episodes/228/</link>
    <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 22:52:51 &#43;0800</pubDate>
    <author>Henry Suryawirawan</author>
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    <description><![CDATA[How do you build a high-performing engineering team in the AI era? And will AI make fundamental engineering skills obsolete? In this episode, Mohan Krishnan, Head of Engineering at Grab, shares lessons from leading transformational engineering teams and the future of tech in Southeast Asia.]]></description>
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