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Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by alberth » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 1:11 PM UTC

The ghost icon confused me at first, given ghostty use of a similar icon.

https://ghostty.org/

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by riceflippa » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 1:16 PM UTC

they literally copied logo (even the color!) from phantom

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by reactordev » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 1:18 PM UTC

This looks really cool except for having to learn a new syntax (is gherkin that bad?) however, something has been bothering me with all of these Agent AI based workflows.

At what point do you actually do engineering? This was a great demo for a project manager. Lead your “team” through feature development. But without proper architecture, development really does become spaghetti.

There’s vibe coding - and then there’s this, where I feel like I’m a PM, not an engineer.

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by Insanity » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 1:21 PM UTC

reactordev wrote: post #403

This looks really cool except for having to learn a new syntax (is gherkin that bad?) however, something has been bothering me with all of these Agent AI based workflows. At what point do you actually do engineering? This was a great demo for a project manager. Lead your “team” through feature development. But without proper architecture, development really does become spaghetti. There’s vibe coding - and then there’…

Yeah, I hear you. Vibe coding is good for a POC style thing as long as you can (somewhat) ignore architecture.

For any real-world application that is even slightly more complex than these demos it will start to fail.

At least that has been my experience

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by dangoodmanUT » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 1:24 PM UTC

northpoleescape wrote: post #290

dangoodmanUT wrote: post #281

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since the original comment was _flagged_, i think you're overreacting a bit.

not sure why you brought up YC, not relevant at all

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by kaptainscarlet » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 1:34 PM UTC

esafak wrote: post #225

postalcoder wrote: post #41

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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…

There should be a standard rule format in a standard place, like ~/.config/llms/rules.md

.vibecodingrc sounds better?

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by BoiledCabbage » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 1:39 PM UTC

mkagenius wrote: post #255

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…

Hello Nathan, I integrated[1] the recently released Apple Container (instead of shell) to run codes generated by Kiro. It works great! 1. CodeRunner: https://github.com/BandarLabs/coderunner

Can you please stop shilling for this?

HN comments aren't an ad network...

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by elashri » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 2:00 PM UTC

It is strange that Amazon Q extension is incompatible with kiro right now.

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by stillpointlab » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 2:02 PM UTC

sirsinsalot wrote: post #386

stillpointlab wrote: post #382

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> Natural language is trying to be a new programming language, one of many, but it's the least precise one imho. I disagree that natural language is trying to be a programming language. I disagree that being less precise is a flaw. Consider: - https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc793.txt - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2616 I think we can agree these are both documents written in natural language. They underpin the…

In this world where the LLM implementation has a bug in it that impacts a human negatively (the app could calculate a person's credit score for example) Who is accountable?

I couldn't even tell you who is liable right now for bugs that impact human's negatively. Can you? If I was an IC at an airplane manufacturer and a bug I wrote caused an airplane crash - who is legally responsible? Is it me? The QA team? The management team? Some 3rd party auditor? Some insurance underwriter? I have a strong suspicion it is very complicated as it is without considering LLMs.

What I can tell you is that the last time I checked: laws are written in natural language, they are argued for/against and interpreted in natural language. I'm pretty confident that there is applicable precedent and the court system is well equipped to deal with autonomous systems already.

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Post by laurent_du » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 2:09 PM UTC

QuinnyPig wrote: post #168

mh- wrote: post #149

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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..)

I’ve yet to see a GenAI system that comes even slightly close. They’re dangerously inaccurate in this space.

You probably need an ad hoc MCP for this kind of things.