How Stanford Teaches AI-Native Engineering — Mihail Eric, Monaco
What happens when students can one-shot last year’s homework? Inside CS146S and the engineering team at Monaco.
Daily digest / 8 November 2026
AI news digest — 8 November 2026
[One Million AI Engineer Special] How Stanford Teaches AI-Native Engineering — Mihail Eric, Monaco
What do you assign when a coding agent can finish last year’s homework in one prompt? In the second run of Stanford’s CS146S, Mihail Eric brought open-source maintainers into the course. Students have to learn an unfamiliar repo, propose a change, and ...
CS 2881 Fall 26: Lecture 6: Grading, Reward Hacking, and Alignment
October 8, 2026 · John Schulman · Scribe notes by Idil Ada, Chenxi Ge, Joaquin, and Harry Hu Notes from CS 2881R: AI Alignment and Safety, Harvard, Fall 2026. Author Introductions Idil Ada: I am a Sophomore studying CS and Statistics. I am conducting AI safety research on how …
CS 2881 Fall 26: Lecture 5: Economics of AI
October 1, 2026 · Erik Brynjolfsson and Chad Jones · Scribe notes by Kathryn, Eli, Sam, and Christopher Notes from CS 2881R: AI Alignment and Safety, Harvard, Fall 2026. Lecture video · Chad Jones’s slides · Experiment code Author Introductions Kathryn: Senior studying Compute…
CS 2881 Fall 26: Lecture 4: Recursive Self-Improvement and AI Trajectories
September 24, 2026 · Dwarkesh Patel and Daniel Kokotajlo · Scribe notes by Adam, Noa, Radha, Rosa, Niranjan, and Wency Notes from CS 2881R: AI Alignment and Safety, Harvard, Fall 2026. Author Intros Adam: I'm an MS/MBA student at Harvard and previously I worked as an ML engine…
CS 2881 Fall 26: Lecture 2: Cyber Capabilities
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