Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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1017 points QuinnyPig | 3 comments | 14 Jul 25 14:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.489s | source

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suralind ◴[14 Jul 25 15:39 UTC] No.44561441[source]▶

Here my problem with this: I don't want to be jumping an editor/IDE every 6 months, learning new key bindings and even more importantly, getting used to a completely new look.

In a space that moves as quickly as "AI" does, it is inevitable that a better and cheaper solution will pop up at some point. We kinda already see it with Cursor and Windsurf. I guess Claude Code is all the rage now and I personally think CLI/TUI is the way to go for anyone that has a similar view.

That said, I'm sure there's a very big user base (probably bigger than terminal group) that will enjoy using this and other GUI apps.

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1. znpy ◴[14 Jul 25 15:43 UTC] No.44561494[source]▶

>>44561441 #

> Here my problem with this: I don't want to be jumping an editor/IDE every 6 months, learning new key bindings and even more importantly, getting used to a completely new look.

You're basically advocating for GNU Emacs: https://github.com/karthink/gptel

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2. suralind ◴[14 Jul 25 15:47 UTC] No.44561550[source]▶

>>44561494 (TP) #

Thanks for the link. I'm not an emacs user and I'm more in the search of something like opencode [1], but I think it's not polished enough yet. I actually want to contribute to open source, so maybe I should create my own thing, heh.

[1]: https://github.com/sst/opencode

3. aquariusDue ◴[14 Jul 25 17:57 UTC] No.44563189[source]▶

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gptel is great, its one of the must have packages for Emacs and I'm pretty sure that with time it will be one of the reasons to use Emacs like org-mode has been for a long time.

For people wanting to get up and running with vanilla Emacs (instead of a distribution) so that they can try out gptel sometime this week, I recommend emacs-bedrock: https://codeberg.org/ashton314/emacs-bedrock

And for a gptel backend Gemini is the fastest route (excluding something local) from generating an API key to using a LLM in Emacs (for free).

Bonus points because Emacs is useful for things other than coding you can use gptel on your notes or any buffer really to ask/talk about stuff.

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