The Modern Software Engineer

About this episode

Mihail Eric discusses the evolving role of the software engineer in the age of AI and the curriculum of his Stanford course on modern software development.

This episode is brought to you by the MLflow team. Check out more information at MLflow.org . Mihail Eric is Head of AI at Monaco and Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University, where he teaches CS146S: "The Modern Software Developer" — the first course in the world dedicated to how AI is transforming every stage of the software development lifecycle. With 12+ years building production AI systems at Amazon Alexa, Storia AI (YC S24), and early-stage startups, Mihail has one of the most grounded, practitioner-level takes on what it actually means to be a software engineer in 2026. The Modern Software Engineer // MLOps Podcast #370 with Mihail Eric, Head of AI at Monaco 🧠 What the modern software engineer actually looks like — why the job description has fundamentally shifted from writing code to designing systems and directing agents ⚙️ Agents require more thinking, not less — why the engineers getting the most out of coding agents are the ones who invest the most upfront in architecture, planning, and codebase structure 🎓 Inside Stanford's "Modern Software Developer" course — what Mihail teaches in the first CS course in the world focused entirely on…

People in this episode

Guest: Mihail Eric

Topics covered

• software engineering
• AI
• MLOps
• software development lifecycle

Keywords

• AI transformation
• software architecture
• coding agents

Sponsors

MLflow

Mentioned in this episode

Products: CS146S, Alexa, Storia AI, YC S24, The Build System, Maven, MLflow

Books & works: The Modern Software Developer"

Places: Monaco

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