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Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by theusus »

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…

Why build an editor and not a CLI. VS code is really slow for me and I would have preferred a CLI.

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by ActorNightly »

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…

While I like the product, implementation could be better. Kiro is sitting idle with Helper Plugin using a shitload of CPU for no reason.

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by NathanKP »

delfinom wrote: post #57
ArcaneMoose wrote: post #34

This is exactly how I've been building software with AI lately. Getting AI to create a detailed plan with phases, then implement and use a separate AI to review the code. It works quite well! Curious to see how well it works when implemented directly in the IDE

At what point does the manager fire you and just let the AIs have at it ;)

Realistically, none of the models can function fully autonomously at this point. You still need a skilled human at the helm. However, AI tools definitely change how the human works. I find that I spend a lot less time thinking about easy things, and a lot more time thinking about hard things.

Basically, the AI fast forwards through the easy stuff and I just spend all day jumping directly from hard problem to hard problem.

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by crinkly »

ryandvm wrote: post #99
crinkly wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why you will have to pry vim and my own brain out of my cold dead hands. It’s not just the IDE but the ML model you are selling yourself to. I see my colleagues atrophy before me. I see their tools melt in their hands. I am rapidly becoming the only person functionally capable of reason on my own. It’s very very weird. When the model money dries up what’s going to happen?

I dunno. There's also a good chance that you just end up being left behind like graybeards that only wanted to code in C and assembler. I too am old enough to have seen a lot of unnecessary tech change cycles, and one thing I've noticed about this industry is no matter how foolish a trend was, we almost never unwind it.

I get paid a fuck load of money to write C. Your point is?

As for trends, I've been around long enough to have seen this cycle a couple of times...

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by aliljet »

I'm a little confused about how pricing works here. What is an 'agentic interaction' and how does that translate to dollars? And how does this work with models that are differently priced???

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by slacktivism123 »

ActorNightly wrote: post #122
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…

While I like the product, implementation could be better. Kiro is sitting idle with Helper Plugin using a shitload of CPU for no reason.

Having ten "Electron Helper (Plugin)" eat a GB of RAM each on idle is the premier desktop experience nowadays. We can't have native apps any more: we don't know how to build them.

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by ActorNightly »

slacktivism123 wrote: post #128
ActorNightly wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I like the product, implementation could be better. Kiro is sitting idle with Helper Plugin using a shitload of CPU for no reason.

Having ten "Electron Helper (Plugin)" eat a GB of RAM each on idle is the premier desktop experience nowadays. We can't have native apps any more: we don't know how to build them.

I use VSCode with Continue. It has a Code Helper Plugin, which peaks during use, but when idle it doesn't use any resource. Something is up with the Kiro version where some background task is running.
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