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Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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1016 points QuinnyPig | 9 comments | 14 Jul 25 14:24 UTC | HN request time: 1.257s | source | bottom
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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. crinkly ◴[14 Jul 25 16:32 UTC] No.44562091[source]▶
This is why you will have to pry vim and my own brain out of my cold dead hands.

It’s not just the IDE but the ML model you are selling yourself to. I see my colleagues atrophy before me. I see their tools melt in their hands. I am rapidly becoming the only person functionally capable of reason on my own. It’s very very weird.

When the model money dries up what’s going to happen?

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2. ryandvm ◴[14 Jul 25 16:51 UTC] No.44562313[source]▶
I dunno. There's also a good chance that you just end up being left behind like graybeards that only wanted to code in C and assembler.

I too am old enough to have seen a lot of unnecessary tech change cycles, and one thing I've noticed about this industry is no matter how foolish a trend was, we almost never unwind it.

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3. crinkly ◴[14 Jul 25 17:35 UTC] No.44562933[source]▶
I get paid a fuck load of money to write C. Your point is?

As for trends, I've been around long enough to have seen this cycle a couple of times...

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4. ryandvm ◴[14 Jul 25 21:07 UTC] No.44565310{3}[source]▶
> I get paid a fuck load of money to write C. Your point is?

My point is there aren't many of you, are there?

All things considered, keeping up with the industry trends is generally a more reliable career path.

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5. haiku2077 ◴[14 Jul 25 21:56 UTC] No.44565781[source]▶
> I dunno. There's also a good chance that you just end up being left behind like graybeards that only wanted to code in C and assembler.

All the people I know in the US with those skills make huge amounts of money- at least, the ones who haven't already retired rich.

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6. crinkly ◴[14 Jul 25 22:05 UTC] No.44565841{4}[source]▶
Correct but we are never fungible. That’s the trick for a reliable career.

I’ve survived every single layoff season since 1995.

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7. knowsuchagency ◴[15 Jul 25 02:04 UTC] No.44567194{5}[source]▶
Ironically, Claude Code has me working in lower-level languages with more low-level tools than ever before, simply because of how powerful it is, particularly as a terminal tool. I've always been more of a GUI person, but now the editor I use most often is Helix.

If I've atrophied in certain aspects of my thinking, I honestly think I've more than made up for it in learning how to engineer the context and requirements for Claude Code more effectively and to quickly dive in to fix things without taking my hands off the keyboard and leaving the terminal.

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8. rvz ◴[15 Jul 25 06:42 UTC] No.44568494{3}[source]▶
Yes. The ones who maintain high risk system software that allows all these machines to be able to train LLMs, compile the systems software or maintaining systems that ingest 2% of the worlds traffic are the ones who are making a lot of money out of this.

Not the ones maintaining frontend web apps or "vibe coding".

9. bowsamic ◴[15 Jul 25 19:18 UTC] No.44574825[source]▶
Remaining skilled while those around you atrophy is never a bad decision