Is there any way to move the chat window to the primary side bar? Having two side bars open takes up a lot of space. Not sure why this pattern persists in these VScode forks.
Kiro: A new agentic IDE
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Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE
#142Hello 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…
I don't know if this is feedback for Kiro per se or more feedback for this category of applications as a whole, but I've personally noticed that the biggest barrier holding me back from giving an earnest look at new coding agents are the custom rules I've set up w/ my existing agents. I have extensively used Copilot, Continue, Cursor, Cline, Aider, Roo Code, and Claude Code. I've just finished porting my rules over t…
I just have a “neutral” guidance markdown setup written in a repo.
Then I add it as a git submodule to my projects and tell whatever agents to look at @llm-shared/ and update its own rule file(s) accordingly
Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every 6 months? It's turning into every two weeks. Sticking with claude code. Its working beautifully for us.
I have a question. I do not like the concept of "agent mode" for AI. I'm a control freak and I want to control every line that gets committed because I am responsible for it and need to understand/visualize/memorize every part of codebases I work on. Is Claude Code good for the "ask" flow? No, right? The old flow before agent mode got added. Select some code, ask questions about it or give an instruction on editing i…
> As I understand (I could be wrong), with agent mode, it edits the file for you, no way for you to accept before it does, so you have to manually check the diff, roll back parts you don't want, etc.
> Am I right?
With cursor you get reasonably flexible control at many levels. You can have it only suggest changes that you have to apply manually or you can have it make automatic changes with various ways to review, change, reject or accept. I usually have the changes made automatically but don’t accept the changes automatically. Cursor has a UI that lets you review each edit individually, for the whole file or all files. Depending on the situation I will use whichever level is appropriate. The UI also allows you to revert changes or you can ask the AI to undo or rework a change that you just approved so there’s plenty of ways to do large changes without giving up control. There’s also a stop button you can use to interrupt mid-stream if the work it’s doing isn’t what you want. It isn’t flawless but I haven’t found myself in a corner where I couldn’t get back to a happy path.
Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE
#144Earlier 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.
Not really, even at work I got to test couple different AI solutions and the experience is always slightly different, even if the editor is the same, for the most part. It's the tiny things like using the prompt template, or opening the panel. (I could, of course, make an attempt to customize the keybindings, but why bother when it changes so quickly.)
The entire idea that “I’m too cool to use an IDE” I find kind of dumb. I was using a Turbo C IDE in college in 1994, Visual Studio until 2019 and since then VSCode.
Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
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, inst…
I think what is going to win is a tool independent to your ide to run your agents, it could be a cli or a gui.
Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE
#146Earlier 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.
A few things: 1) It's normal for Kiro (and almost every AI editor) to use a lot more CPU when you first start it up, because it is indexing your codebase in the background, for faster and more accurate results when you prompt. That indexing should complete at some point 2) On initial setup of Kiro it will import and install your plugins from VS Code. If you have a large number of plugins this continues in the backgro…
Thanks for the reply. It was the indexing.
Is there any way to control this? I have my files.watcherExclude setting, does it respect that?
Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE
#147I tried Kiro just to test the tool and I was able to create a small order application. I liked it that that it created the documentation including planning and test scenarios. I will continue using the tool to create more complex apps.
Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE
#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know if this is feedback for Kiro per se or more feedback for this category of applications as a whole, but I've personally noticed that the biggest barrier holding me back from giving an earnest look at new coding agents are the custom rules I've set up w/ my existing agents. I have extensively used Copilot, Continue, Cursor, Cline, Aider, Roo Code, and Claude Code. I've just finished porting my rules over t…
Or a proper standard like MCP was for agentic tool use, this time for context setup...
Problems w auth / security in MCP skeeve me out. For that reason, I really don't want to invest in workflows that depend on MCP and have steered clear. But I'd be grateful for well-informed comments / advice on that front.
As for a hypothetical new "context setup" protocol like you posit, I suspect it'd benefit from the "cognitive tools" ideas in this awesome paper / project: https://github.com/davidkimai/Context-Engineering>
^ inspiring stuff
Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE
#149I got to play with this for the past week, and it's surprisingly good from an angle of "does a lot of the context engineering work for you." It enforces a rigor that I don't usually bring to vibe coding...
Can it sort out AWS bills yet?
(I initially started writing this as a joke upon recognizing your name, but now I think I'm serious..)
Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
A few things: 1) It's normal for Kiro (and almost every AI editor) to use a lot more CPU when you first start it up, because it is indexing your codebase in the background, for faster and more accurate results when you prompt. That indexing should complete at some point 2) On initial setup of Kiro it will import and install your plugins from VS Code. If you have a large number of plugins this continues in the backgro…
Thanks for the reply. It was the indexing. Is there any way to control this? I have my files.watcherExclude setting, does it respect that?
I believe that the file indexing exclusion is based on .gitignore, not files.watcherExclude, but let me check on that and confirm.