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Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

#391
I think the interesting part here is not so much the IDE/coding aspect, but LLM-assisted:

* requirements doc

* design doc

* plan doc

These alone make an interesting product. Give me a thing that asks me the right, thought provoking questions (ideally let me answer by just choosing from a list of relevant options) and produces these docs in a structured and highly detailed way, and I’m set.

I think the code is just a distraction. There are plenty of tools for that.

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

#392
How does it compare to Claude Code? Can't that do this sort of thinking ahead and writing specifically? It may need some prompting to do the specifically writing specifically though.

I feel like this might be nicer as an MCP and I bring my own AI assistant to it.

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

#393
post #28

Many companies are considering IDEs the way to reach developers. Atom started the trend of next generation IDEs and VSCode consolidated most of the market. With the AI raising, people are looking to get usage, gathering data, and positioning models. An IDE provides you all of that. AI seems to be a way to engage happy users to try new things. Kiro joins a growing list of projects: - Kiro (AWS) - VSCode + Copilot (Mic…

It makes we attracted to Vim/Emacs. They'll be the same until I die.

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

#394

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> precise prompt If there was such a thing you would just check in your prompts into your repo and CI would build your final application from prompts and deploy it. So it follows that if you are accepting 95% of what random output is being given to you. you are either doing something really mundane and straightforward or you don't care much about the shape of the output ( not to be confused with quality) . Like in th…

The above is saying more precise not completely precise. The overall point they're making is you still are responsible for the code you commit. If they are saying the code in this project was in line with what they would have written, I lean towards trusting their assessment.

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Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

#395

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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 genuinely thought we have enough RAM since the 16GB era. Nope, they figured out a way to consume it all plus a dozen of GB in swap.

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

#396

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> precise prompt If there was such a thing you would just check in your prompts into your repo and CI would build your final application from prompts and deploy it. So it follows that if you are accepting 95% of what random output is being given to you. you are either doing something really mundane and straightforward or you don't care much about the shape of the output ( not to be confused with quality) . Like in th…

The above is saying more precise not completely precise. The overall point they're making is you still are responsible for the code you commit. If they are saying the code in this project was in line with what they would have written, I lean towards trusting their assessment.

I am not doubting 95% acceptance rate all. I've pure vibecoded many toy projects myself.

> in line with what they would have written,

point i am making is that they didn't know what they would've written. they had a rough overall idea but details were being accepted on the fly. They were trying out bunch of things and see what looks good based on a rough idea of what output should be.

In a real world project you are not both product owner and coder.

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

#397
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Just like using an AI model, you can’t actually know for sure that it won’t do anything malicious with what interfaces you give it access to. You just have to trust it.

Well, you can at least check if there is network traffic to AWS or something similar.

There’s always ways to mitigate malicious behaviour once it’s already happening.

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

#400
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…

Hi Nathan, this is awesome. I also discovered similar workflows and built SpecLinter: https://github.com/orangebread/speclinter-mcp

Will be trying Kiro, excited to see how you approached implementing a similar idea!

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