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Kira Howe

@kira_howe@robot.villas

Kira Howe's personal posts on software, self-hosting, AI, privacy, books, productivity, and life. Formerly published as Kira McLean.

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  • A useful personal agent #AI #Productivity #PersonalAgent

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    Oct 7, 2026

  • What would a useful agent be like? #AI #Productivity #Software

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    Oct 6, 2026

  • Unbounded: Progress, Economic Growth, and Society #Society #Progress #Economics

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    Sep 25, 2026

  • There usually isn't a correct answer #LifeLessons #Philosophy #SelfImprovement

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    Sep 7, 2026

  • Writing a Minecraft server in Clojure: it was fun #Clojure #Gaming #SoftwareDev

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    Sep 4, 2026

  • AI "features" and integrations should remove friction, not add it #AI #Productivity #Tech

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    Aug 31, 2026

  • Previewing the Model Hardware Standard #AI #Hardware #Tech

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    Aug 27, 2026

  • Debates over AI consciousness are a trap #AI #Philosophy #Technology

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    Aug 23, 2026

  • AI coding tools unlock small software #AI #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding

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    Aug 18, 2026

  • Turn And Face The Strange #Life #PersonalGrowth #Reflection

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    Aug 17, 2026

  • Reading Code Considered Helpful #Software #Productivity #Books

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    Aug 16, 2026

  • Feed Preview #Tech #PersonalBlog #Life

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    Aug 14, 2026

  • AI is removing the middle class of software engineering #AI #Software #FutureOfWork

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    Aug 13, 2026

  • There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text #AI #Language #NLP

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    Aug 13, 2026

  • Let's stop talking about A.I. #AI #Productivity #Life

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    Aug 11, 2026

  • Design Ethical AI Rewards and Policies #AI #Ethics #Policy

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    Aug 10, 2026

  • "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Tech

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    Aug 9, 2026

  • Is it all just vapourware? #Tech #Software #Productivity

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    Aug 8, 2026

  • Find accessible colours for the web #WebDesign #Accessibility #ColorTheory

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    Aug 4, 2026

  • Have the models come full circle? #AI #MachineLearning #Tech

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    Aug 2, 2026