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Mihail Eric

Mihail Eric

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Head of AI at Monaco, Creator of Stanford's AI Coding Course

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Mihail Eric will make you and your engineering team AI-native

I’m Head of AI at Monaco, a startup building the future AI-powered revenue platform for GTM teams, backed by Human Capital, Benchmark, and Founders Fund. I'm also an adjunct professor at Stanford, where I created and teach "The Modern Software Developer", the university's first course on AI software development. I've trained hundreds of engineers on AI coding principles and have advised dozens of global software teams including Amazon, Allianz Global, Upstart, and more.

In past lives, I was a technical lead at Amazon Alexa where I built the first LLMs for the organization. I also founded a YC-backed AI coding company. Before that I started Confetti AI, a machine learning education startup that trained thousands of students globally and that I led until its acquisition in 2022.

Previously at
Y Combinator
Alexa
Stanford University

Alumni reviews

Hannah

Live cohort
Senior Engineering Manager, AI Team · Honeycomb

Building an AI-Native Engineering Team

An excellent primer on the many dimensions of building an AI-native organization. Mihail draws on emerging patterns across companies to cover the full picture, from the software development lifecycle to organizational design, roles, hiring, cost governance, and ROI. The course begins with a practical four-point AI-native readiness scorecard, which gives participants a useful framework for assessing their organizations and contextualizing the material that follows. My organization averaged a 3, with 4 representing fully AI-native, so some of the foundational sections reinforced concepts that were already familiar to me. I found the greatest value in the second-half discussions about cost-governance models and demonstrating organization-wide ROI.

Rich

Live cohort
The best part of the course was learnings and insights from the current state of the art from silicon valley. The cohort made it even more interesting, with learners from varied backgrounds, sharing their experiences, struggles and wins.

Jaco

Live cohort
Solutions Architect AI · Allianz Global Investors

AI Software Development: From First Prompt to Production Code

Eric explains the material clearly and keeps it practical rather than overly academic. The course gives you a good understanding of not only what to do, but why certain approaches are better than others.

Kimmo

Live cohort
A great course for engineers and engineering teams that are adopting or have adopted AI in software development.

Bernard

Live cohort
AI Technical Operator · BLG CONSULTING SAS

AI Software Development: From First Prompt to Production Code

I took Mihail Eric’s The Modern Software Developer to step back from the day-to-day and address a singular objective: How do we industrialize software delivery and operations in the age of AI? The shift is deep. As an IC, using the BRePPIT Framework (Brainstorm before RePPIT) allows me to solo-deliver projects with architectural discipline that previously required an entire team. But the real challenge is managerial: How do we reorganize the 'Software Factory' so these gains scale? One of the most high-leverage takeaways from the cohort was rethinking how we use AI not just to write code, but to define and distribute work across modern team topologies.