Stanford CS329Z Engineering AI Agents: Syllabus + Self-Study

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0800

Stanford’s new agents course bans agent frameworks in its first assignment. HW1 of Stanford CS329Z: Engineering AI Agents tells students to build a company’s internal AI assistant “with no agent frameworks: just a chat-completion call and code you write yourself.” LangChain, LangGraph, DSPy, and LlamaIndex don’t show up until lecture six, and when they do, the stated purpose is to compare “what frameworks abstract vs. what you built from scratch.”

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Stanford CS329Z Engineering AI Agents: Syllabus + Self-Study