The Modern Software Developer - Stanford University • Fall 2025
https://themodernsoftware.dev/

This course demonstrates that modern AI tooling will not only enhance developer productivity but also democratize software engineering for a broader audience. We'll show that software development has evolved from 0-1 code creation to an iterative workflow of plan, generate with AI, modify, and repeat. Students will master both the theory behind traditional software engineering challenges and the cutting-edge AI-powered tools solving them today.

Through hands-on engineering tasks and talks from industry pioneers building these revolutionary tools, you'll gain practical experience with AI-assisted development, automated testing, intelligent documentation, and security vulnerability detection. By the end of this course, you'll have a crisp understanding of how to integrate state-of-the-art LLM models into complex development workflows and avoid common pitfalls.