How Stanford Teaches AI-Native Engineering — Mihail Eric, Monaco

In this AI Engineer interview, Mihail Eric, who teaches Stanford's CS146S "The Modern Software Developer" and leads AI at Monaco, describes how the course was refreshed for a second run, with part of the homework now being contributions to open-source projects reviewed by the repos' maintainers. He also discusses Monaco's approach of buying some tools (such as Devin for code review) while building its own agent workspaces, guided by his rule of thumb: "You buy to learn, and you build to keep."