So we have another ugly VSCode clone with the same legal/support issues as all the other clones, but without any vibe-coding worthy assists like voice dictation/control or any other major differentiator. Just another "me too" project from AWS to scratch some product manager itch and commoditize the complement of some competitor.
Kiro: A new agentic IDE
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Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE
#112awesome tool!
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#113Unless 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…
what are the unsupported extensions? i thought the support had to do with marketplace access (search / download / update) but if you already have the vsix it can be installed in any vscode fork
Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE
#114Hello 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…
Is this supposed to be a demo of how wide-ranging Kiro is or how accurate it is? Because the very first item in the screenshots is in a superposition of conflicting states from various parts of its description.
That said, thanks for being willing to demo what kinds of things it can do!
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#115Kiro in Finnish means "a curse".
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#116This doesn't support development containers ( https://containers.dev ), which means I can't insulate my machine from AI tooling. Not keen on this unless it's somehow earth-shattering.
why doesn't it support them?
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#117I use Roo code with orchestrator(Boomerang) mode which pretty much has similar workflow. The orchestrator calls the architect to design the specs, and after iterating and agreeing on the approach, it is handed over to Code mode to execute the tasks. Google Gemini 2.5 pro is pretty good at orchestration due to its 1M context and I use claude sonnet 4 for code mode.
What else does Kiro do differently?
Edit: The hooks feature looks nifty. How is the memory management handled? Any codebase indexing etc? Support to add external MCP servers like context7 etc?
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#118Am 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.
You have to put in some effort to put in the guardrails and scaffolds to make it produce what you want. It’s definitely not out-of-the-box deal.
Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE
#119Hello 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…
Hey Nathan, congratulations on the success and seeing your baby out to release!
Is your team hiring? Would love to be apart of the process. resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MSuAf4LDDMULwKHAtTg1o5TzbPp...
Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE
#120Hello 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…
Can you comment on how the IDE performs on large codebases? Does the spec based approach help with it? Any examples you can give from experience at Amazon?
It works great in really large codebases!
I've published a sample project that is medium sized, about 20k lines encompassing a game client, game server, and background service: https://github.com/kirodotdev/spirit-of-kiro This has been all developed by Kiro. The way Kiro is able to work in these larger projects is thanks to steering files like these:
- Structure, helps Kiro navigate the large project: https://github.com/kirodotdev/spirit-of-kiro/blob/main/.kiro...
- Tech, helps Kiro stay consistent with the tech it uses in a large project: https://github.com/kirodotdev/spirit-of-kiro/blob/main/.kiro...
And yes, the specs do help a lot. They help Kiro spend more time gathering context before getting to work, which helps the new features integrate into the existing codebase better, with less duplication, and more accuracy.