- Who it helps
- Experienced programmers and educators designing exercises around coding agents.
- Availability
- Public Fall 2026 course overview; CS111/CS161-equivalent programming experience is expected. Public reading does not establish enrollment or access to every class resource.
What the course covers
The overview includes tool connections, reusable agent instructions, specifications and iterative evaluation. These topics offer a curriculum map for programmers who already know how to build software.
A useful teaching constraint
In the November 8 interview, Mihail Eric describes having students contribute to open-source projects whose maintainers review the changes. The exercise adds a real reviewer and a reason to understand the patch. The interview does not establish measured learning gains.
What you can do
- Read the source and its evaluation conditions before applying this approach. Open reference ↗
Where the evidence stops
Course overview and interview opening read. No course completion, full video viewing or learning-outcome experiment was performed.
Sources read. Primary sources checked November 9, 2026 UTC during the November 8 scheduled run. No third-party software, inference, proofs or complete workflow executed.
Sources & further reading
Web · official
Stanford CS146S Fall 2026 course ↗
Public overview specifies prerequisites and topics. Course assignments were not completed and enrollment access was not tested.
Mihail Eric and Stanford course team · page checked 2026-11-09
More sources reviewed (1)
Web · analysis
Interview on teaching AI-assisted engineering ↗
Opening through the two introductory sections read, plus source links. The full 115-minute episode was not watched.
swyx and Mihail Eric · page checked 2026-11-09 · Published 2026-11-08
Coverage note: Independent dated demonstrations, cross-platform attention and complete execution remain unverified.
The record over time (1)
Dated source checks and published explanations. An observation date can differ from the original release date.
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Stanford’s Fall 2026 software course teaches how to define work, supply context and evaluate coding-agent output.