Around November 2024, Mihail Eric conceived the course after observing that coding agents were changing developers’ work practices and the speed at which they completed work.

“But the-- even before fall 2025, the course had been about, like, a year in the making. The genesis of the class was like November of 2024, and I had sort of had this idea that we're seeing all this stuff happening in coding agents, and yes, they were an earlier version of the coding agents, but already it felt like there was something drastically changing in terms of how developers were doing their work, how quickly we were getting work done, uh, all that fun stuff.”