Stanford's CS146S assigns students open-source patches reviewed by maintainers

1. 4:41 PM
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   Stanford course CS146S shifts AI-native engineering homework to open-source contributions

   AIMihail Eric, who teaches CS146S at Stanford and leads AI at Monaco, says last year's assignments could be one-shotted by coding agents. This year students contribute patches to open-source projects, which maintainers review. The episode also covers the course's ten-week syllabus and how Monaco's engineering team uses coding agents.

2. 4:23 PM
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   How Stanford teaches AI-native software engineering with open-source maintainers

   AIMihail 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.

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