Kira Howe

#ci2 entries

October 20, 2026

Enjoying Software Engineering in the Age of AI

This essay was originally written for and submitted to the Pragmatic Engineer essay contest in October 2026. At some point earlier this year I realized I was not enjoying work the way I used to. I'm the kind of person who likes solving problems for a living. On a good day I might even go so far as to say I enjoy the work of getting to the bottom of an issue and fixing it from first principles. […38 min read]

post#accountability#agent-driven-development#ai#ci#code-review#coding-agents#observability#reflections#software-engineering

December 30, 2020

How To Set Up Codecov For a Clojure Deps Project

Update: I recently switched to using Github Actions to run my tests because I started getting git auth failures trying to fetch git deps on CircleCI. Learning the random YAML magic required to set up a github action was marginally less awful than faffing with ssh keys on circle. You can see the result in this commit. The actual steps to set up codecov for your project are the same. […3 min read]

post#ci#clojure#testing