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AI CURATED HOT STORY · 11/9/2026

Stanford CS146S Has Students Pitch Real Patches to Open-Source Maintainers

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With coding agents able to finish last year's homework in a single prompt, Stanford's CS146S now requires students to learn an unfamiliar open-source repo, propose a change, and defend the patch to the maintainer who might merge it. Instructor Mihail Eric, who also leads AI at Monaco, walks through the syllabus and explains how his team decides which agent tooling to build versus buy, including on-call agents wired into Datadog and GitHub.

LATEST/With coding agents able to finish last year's homework in a single prompt, Stanford's CS146S now requires students to learn an unfamiliar open-source repo, propose a change, and defend the patch to the maintainer who might merge it. Instructor Mihail Eric, who also leads AI at Monaco, walks through the syllabus and explains how his team decides which agent tooling to build versus buy, including on-call agents wired into Datadog and GitHub.

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