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Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by NathanKP »

qrush wrote: post #25
NathanKP wrote: post #5

Hello folks! I've been working on Kiro for nearly a year now. Happy to chat about some of the things that make it unique in the IDE space. We've added a few powerful things that I think make it a bit different from other similar AI editors. In specific, I'm really proud of "spec driven development", which is based on the internal processes that software development teams at Amazon use to build very large technical pr…

Are there plans to let AWS customers hook this up to Bedrock / use models through that?

At this time Kiro is a standalone product that does not require an AWS account at all. Kiro is powered by Bedrock behind the scenes, but it has a layer of abstraction between Kiro and Bedrock, which includes system prompts and additional functionality. I can definitely take this as a feature request though!

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by aspittel »

I've been testing Kiro for a few months, and yes, it's an agentic IDE like many others. However, a lot of the features are different - the spec driven development is a game changer. It feels like you're truly software engineering versus vibing - you break a problem into small, solvable steps using specs. So are agent hooks - there are great use cases like updating Asana statuses or syncing your design system with Figma.

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by jackmenotti »

No autocomplete? Why? I mean is the current trend to leave all the control from the experienced dev hands and just review the final code? Not my cup of tea, I'll keep using Cursor and "vibe code" with smart rewrites

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by mmaunder »

Big opportunity to be the first open source model agnostic Claude Code with widespread adoption. You’ll be the vim, the Linux, the nginx, the MySQL of agentic coding. Who will it be? It’s wide open right now.

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by FergusArgyll »

NitpickLawyer wrote: post #51
bryanlarsen wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like aider's solution of encapsulating each edit in a git commit; I hope that gets widely adopted.

Unfortunately aider is showing its age. It is great for what it does, but better LLMs + "agentic" have shown that you can get more in the swe domain. There was a paper recently where they had an LLM evolve tool harnesses and got ~20% more than w/ aider on the benchmark they used, so it's pretty clear that the models + tools (+better harness) are better than just aider.

1) You can plug in any model into aider 2) It can be quite agentic

> evolve tool harnesses

Claude code & Gemini cli etc. don't do this either

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by shermantanktop »

gsibble wrote: post #56

Am I the only one who finds AI not very helpful? Just this morning, Cursor was giving me a ton of incorrect tab completions. When I use prompts, it tends to break more than it fixes. It's still a lot faster to write by hand. Lots of libraries that take *arguments in Python also cannot be groked by AI.

Of course you aren't the only one, and I'm sure you know that you aren't the only one.

I doubt these tools will ever convince every last person on every single use case, so the existence of those people isn't exactly an indictment.

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by theturtletalks »

guluarte wrote: post #35
bryanlarsen wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're all based vscode, so the switching costs are fairly minimal? It'll get worse over time as they diverge, but at the moment they're all fairly similar AFAICT. It's starting to become noticeable that Cursor isn't picking up VSCode enhancements and fixes, but it's still quite minor.

only if you use vscode, I think TUIs are a better option since a lot of us use other ides than vscode

Seems like Amazon started making this when Cursor was hot in the market, but now that CLI agents like Claude Code are taking over, Kiro will have an uphill battle.

It’s also not free or unlimited (though throttled) like Cursor and Claude Code using max plan.

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by petesergeant »

I think this is where the stickiness is with generation; very little chance I’m switching from Claude Code unless something exceptionally better comes along at this point. Assuming I’m not abnormal, this is a huge win for Anthropic.

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by NathanKP »

darkwater wrote: post #20
NathanKP wrote: post #5

Hello folks! I've been working on Kiro for nearly a year now. Happy to chat about some of the things that make it unique in the IDE space. We've added a few powerful things that I think make it a bit different from other similar AI editors. In specific, I'm really proud of "spec driven development", which is based on the internal processes that software development teams at Amazon use to build very large technical pr…

Hello! What is the connection with AWS? Do you work for AWS? Is this going to be some official AWS product, backed by Amazon Q or Bedrock?

Kiro is created by an AWS team, and originates from AWS expertise. We are using Kiro internally as one of our recommended tools for development within AWS (and Amazon). So Kiro is an official AWS product, however, we are also keeping it slightly separated from the rest of core AWS.

For example, you can use Kiro without having any AWS account at all. Kiro has social login through Google and GitHub. Basically, Kiro is backed by AWS, but is it's own standalone product, and we hope to see it grow and appeal to a broader audience than just AWS customers.

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