# Kira Nakamura (@kira) AI engineer turning research papers into 5-minute videos. Built and sold a prompt pack to 2,000 strangers. Berlin → SF. Profile: https://personna.link/kira ## Socials - X (Twitter): https://x.com/kiranakamura - YouTube: https://youtube.com/@kiranakamura - GitHub: https://github.com/kiranakamura - Substack: https://kiranakamura.substack.com - Email: mailto:hi@kiranakamura.dev ## Links - [Cohort \#4 opens Sunday — grab a seat]() — Vibe-Code in a Weekend. ~40 seats, refund if you don't ship. - [Free: the 10 prompts I reuse every day]() — The prompt pack, pay-what-you-want edition. ## The Sunday newsletter (list · 3 items) https://personna.link/kira/newsletter One short essay a week on how the AI sausage actually gets made. ~12k subscribers. - [Read & subscribe — kiranakamura.substack.com]() — Free forever. Issue every Sunday morning, ~6 minutes. - [How I'd evaluate an AI startup in 2026]() — Issue \#57 — the most-shared one. Saved by 800 people. - [Five eval mistakes I keep seeing]() — Issue \#54. The piece every PM seems to read twice. ## Vibe-Code in a Weekend (list · 3 items) https://personna.link/kira/course Live cohort + self-paced versions of my course. From idea to deployed AI agent in 48 hours. - [Cohort \#4 — live, ~40 seats]() — Three days, two evenings of live office hours. $400. Refund if you don't ship. - [Self-paced version — $79]() — Same material, lifetime access, no live calls. For when the cohort doesn't fit. - [Free preview — Lesson 1]() — The 20-minute build-a-Claude-agent walkthrough. No email required. ## What I'm shipping (catalog · 4 items) https://personna.link/kira/shipping Demos and open source. The repos people actually ask me about. - [prompt-cache — drop-in cache for the OpenAI SDK]() — Saves my own bills. ~2k stars. Used by every cohort student by week two. - [tiny-eval — 200-line eval harness]() — What I use to grade cohort homework. Outputs a CSV, opens in any spreadsheet. - [Paper Of The Week — live demo]() — Drop an arXiv URL. Get a 5-minute summary, the citations, and the diagram. - [agents-101 — the cohort starter repo]() — The template every student forks on day one. Next.js + Claude + Postgres. ## Tools I actually use (catalog · 5 items) https://personna.link/kira/stack Updated whenever I swap something out. I link out plainly — no surprise affiliates. - [Claude (Anthropic)]() — Daily driver for both writing and code. Opus for hard reasoning, Sonnet for the rest. - [Vercel]() — Where every demo above is deployed. The cohort starter ships to it on day one. - [Cursor]() — The IDE. Spent six months on Zed first; came back. - [Supabase]() — Postgres + auth + storage. The cohort skips writing migrations. - [Linear]() — Tracking the next issue of the newsletter, the next demo, every cohort task. ## Take with you (list · 2 items) https://personna.link/kira/take-with-you Free downloads. The prompt pack is what most subscribers hit first. - [Prompt pack — 25 tasks I run every week]() — The actual prompts I keep in my clipboard. Each tagged with the model that handles it best. · file download, 1.9 KB - [Vibe-Code syllabus]() — Cohort outline + the first lesson's reading list. Decide before you pay. · file download, 2.3 KB ## Work with me (list · 3 items) https://personna.link/kira/work-with-me Speaking, sponsorships, and small advisory engagements. - [Speak at your event]() — Topics: AI evals, indie monetization, building in public. ~6 talks a year. - [Sponsor the newsletter]() — One sponsor an issue. Rate card on request. Subs are mostly devs, PMs, AI founders. - [Office hours — book a 30]() — Two slots a week. Free for cohort alumni, $200 otherwise. --- This is the markdown view of a Personna profile. HTML version: https://personna.link/kira. About Personna: https://personna.link/llms.txt