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Start free trial →Latent Space · AI Builders · November 2026
Eric explains why he replaced last year's nine teaching assignments with contributions to real open-source projects, where maintainers review the students' code. The old exercises could be solved with a single agent prompt.
Yeah.
What's the thinking behind that? You have people.
Yeah, yeah. This is one of the things that I'm honestly kind of most proud of and most excited about. I mean, this is about to be week two of the class. Yeah, so this is the very gracious open source partners that I spent the greater part of this summer just kind of talking to and getting them kind of excited about and interested in sort of this offering. Basically the idea was: so last year when I taught the class, we had like nine assignments and then we had like a capstone open-ended project, right? The nine assignments were basically me sort of like coming up with these pedagogical exercises, like, oh, here's a repo, like use an AI code review tool to post a code review and then see why is it good, why is it not good. So relatively pedagogical, honestly, pretty easy. I think for a lot of folks, they could have just one-shot it. And I thought, okay, this is not that helpful. At this point, agents are around. I mean, they have every student that I surveyed on Tuesday, not a single person really types by hand anymore. They're like, everyone's using coding agents. And this is all…
Do you survey them as the market share?
Was that like what tools they use? Okay, I haven't yet, but that's a good cause. Yeah, yeah. I will be able to do that. You could be spicy.
Stanford Teaches. No, no.