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Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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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.

You need far more than that. Beyond the basic resource sizing / misconfiguration issues, it’s highly contextually dependent to an environment / institution. A change that’s great for one customer could be ruinous for another.

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Q CLI is great. It’s basically Claude models but pretty much unlimited and only for $20 Not as polished as Claude Code but also a bit price difference

That sounds too good to be true, and it seems like they are indeed introducing a usage system similar to their competitors next month? > Starting August 1, 2025, we’re introducing a new pricing plan for Amazon Q Developer designed to make things simpler and more valuable for developers. > Pro Tier: Expanded limits $19/mo. per user > 1,000 agentic requests per month included (starting 8/1/2025) - https://aws.amazon.co…

50 request per month? Am I reading that correctly? If that's the case it is pityful.

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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I 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 f…

Interesting. Do you have a write up on this setup I (we) could follow?

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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For anyone wondering, Amazon already offers an Agentic coding CLI similar to Claude Code: https://github.com/aws/amazon-q-developer-cli It has a pretty decent free tier, and maybe the subscription is better value than Claude Code, but hard to tell. It supports MCP as well. Amazon Q also has a VC Code and IntelliJ Idea plugin too, Kiro goes beyond what you can do as a plugin in VS Code though, similar to why Cursor ha…

Q CLI has so many issues though, injects so much junk into you shell profiles it can slow down your terminal invocations by seconds, and it doesn't support standard streamableHttp / SSE MCP servers.

just turn those off, it's just 2 includes one at the top and one at the bottom of your shell... file a ticket about making it optional or not. I believe that the shell integration / autocomplete is where they started the product so it's probably one of those core features in the product team's minds.

I generally like the integration but in some cases it's getting in the way of other ai that is runnin q to quit and all of a sudden its in q... I renamed it to amazonq and removed it from my zshrc and added it as a command to integrate, amazonqinit

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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do i have to run each task manually in the tasks.md? can i not leave it unsupervised?

i also need to individually approve each command for some reason and then if it fails due to a service high load i need to manually restart all over again the same task.

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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Thats the convention I am using. My CLAUDE.md and GEMINI.md both just say "See AGENTS.md".

Have you heard about symlinks yet? The idea of having a bunch of A100 GPU cycles needed to process the natural language equivalent of a file pointer makes me deeply sad about the current state of software development.

This take reminds me of the pain I experience when I watch people type website addresses into the google search box

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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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

> There should be a standard rule format

We are a few months into widespread use of this class of technology. Now is a terrible time to introduce standards. Would be a small short term gain delivering huge long term pain.

Re: Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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first impressions:

1. autopilot should be off by default. this is the norm for claude code and cline (plan mode)

2. my sidebar is on the right. that was imported correctly from vs code, but the kiro window is still on the left. why can't it be on the same side as my sidebar like a usual extension (e.g. cline)?

3. the textbox is super busy. for some reason the "Hold Shift to drop image" is stuck there

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