Too late to the party. Feels like the market has moved onto Claude Code and terminal agents. I use Claude Code extensively and love the flexibility and fluidity. Also works well through the terminal integration in IDE.
Kiro: A new agentic IDE
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I think IDE-based tools like Cursor, VS Code, etc, will win out in the long term, especially as the younger generation grows up.
In the short term though, I think CLI-based tools like Claude Code are taking off because hardcore developers see them as the last "vestige" they have in separating themselves from the "noobs." They know there's still a good portion of the public who don't know how to use the terminal, install packages, or even know what Linux is.
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#104does this have any carveouts for CDK or other aws services? I've found that sonnet sometimes struggles to know what params to use, while amazon Q despite being on paper a worse model, can. It seems this uses sonnet, but are there any adjustments?
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#105Unless it offers me something substantially better than VSCode, I am not gonna switch and it has a lot to do with unsupported extensions. For now, I think UX preference has to be CLI with web gui wrapper where you can pick models, agents, requirements, etc and let that run anywhere, even headless. I don’t like how these guys (as in all the VSCode wrappers) are trying to sucker people onto their platform to lock you in.
Edit: I know there’s manual VSIX route.
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#106I'm surprised no one is gobbling up jetbrains.
They have been cleaning up and getting rid of projects, so seems to be preparing for it.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
If this integrated with AWS for billing, usage, and IAM purposes it would be a no brainer to have my team trying this out today.
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#108Hey, a cute logo! I didn't know AWS allowed cute things.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every 6 months? It's turning into every two weeks. Sticking with claude code. Its working beautifully for us.
I love Claude Code too, and it definitely has it's place. I think that IDE's have a few advantages over CLI tools though. In specific the IDE has a lot more contextual information such as what files you have open, warnings from linters or type checkers, information from LSP, etc. I think it is entirely possible to build a fantastic CLI tool for coding, and the CLI tools for coding already work well enough, but there…
I use claude code in vscode. Cmd-Esc opens a claude code tab. Then /ide conects to the vscode and it's all like cursor at that point.
Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE
#110Unless it offers me something substantially better than VSCode, I am not gonna switch and it has a lot to do with unsupported extensions. For now, I think UX preference has to be CLI with web gui wrapper where you can pick models, agents, requirements, etc and let that run anywhere, even headless. I don’t like how these guys (as in all the VSCode wrappers) are trying to sucker people onto their platform to lock you i…
Kiro is Vscode (forked from the open source version). I imported all the settings and extensions into it from VSCode, worked fine.