# How Stanford teaches AI-native software engineering with open-source maintainers

> Original title: [One Million AI Engineer Special] How Stanford Teaches AI-Native Engineering — Mihail Eric, Monaco

- Source: Latent Space
- Published: 2026-11-08T21:23:29.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/wuzpzguaadibou8d5skih9qbc
- Original: https://latent.space/p/one_million_ai_engineer_special_how_stanford_teaches_ai-native_engineering_mihail_eric_monaco/

## Summary

Mihail Eric, who teaches The Modern Software Developer at Stanford and leads AI at Monaco, describes the second run of Stanford's CS146S, where students learn an unfamiliar open-source repo, propose a change, and explain the patch to its maintainers. He walks through the course's ten-week syllabus and says which lessons survived his engineering team's use of coding agents. The interview also covers Monaco's agent workspaces and an on-call agent with access to Datadog and GitHub.