# Bad Influence story: Stanford's CS146S assigns students open-source patches reviewed by maintainers

Active · 2 articles · 1 source · First reported 11-08 16:23. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/45b9a713-cf5a-4c87-95e8-e905196bd491

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Latest update (11-08 16:41): Stanford course CS146S shifts AI-native engineering homework to open-source contributions

Overview: Mihail Eric, who teaches CS146S at Stanford and leads AI at Monaco, says the course's second run replaces last year's assignments, which he says coding agents could one-shot, with contributions to open-source projects. Students learn an unfamiliar repository, propose a change, and explain the patch to its maintainers, who review it.

In a Latent Space interview published November 8, 2026, Eric also describes the course's ten-week syllabus and which lessons held up in his engineering team's use of coding agents. The interview additionally covers Monaco's agent workspaces and an on-call agent with access to Datadog and GitHub.

Coverage timeline (newest first):
1. 11-08 16:41 · Latent Space · [Stanford course CS146S shifts AI-native engineering homework to open-source contributions](https://badinfluence.news/items/lnkg4cio8mi1gp2nep7hxzeru)
2. 11-08 16:23 · Latent Space · [How Stanford teaches AI-native software engineering with open-source maintainers](https://badinfluence.news/items/wuzpzguaadibou8d5skih9qbc)
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