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Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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1014 points QuinnyPig | 1 comments | 14 Jul 25 14:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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bryanlarsen ◴[14 Jul 25 15:45 UTC] No.44561512[source]▶
They're all based vscode, so the switching costs are fairly minimal? It'll get worse over time as they diverge, but at the moment they're all fairly similar AFAICT. It's starting to become noticeable that Cursor isn't picking up VSCode enhancements and fixes, but it's still quite minor.
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guluarte ◴[14 Jul 25 15:51 UTC] No.44561605[source]▶
only if you use vscode, I think TUIs are a better option since a lot of us use other ides than vscode
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theturtletalks ◴[14 Jul 25 16:13 UTC] No.44561856[source]▶
Seems like Amazon started making this when Cursor was hot in the market, but now that CLI agents like Claude Code are taking over, Kiro will have an uphill battle.

It’s also not free or unlimited (though throttled) like Cursor and Claude Code using max plan.

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placardloop ◴[14 Jul 25 17:48 UTC] No.44563088[source]▶
Which is kind of ironic since the Amazon Q Developer CLI (which is essentially Claude Code with a slightly different wrapper) was released long before Claude Code and seems to mostly be flying under the radar.
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1. theturtletalks ◴[14 Jul 25 18:07 UTC] No.44563331[source]▶
Claude Code really was at the right place at the right time. Cursor started putting new models under their MAX plan that charges per use and I started getting worse results with Cursor over time as they optimized costs. I started looking into Cline/RooCode when Cursor did this because I knew they were in the squeezing customers stage now. I used those for a while with Sonnet thru OpenRouter, but Anthropic had the genius plan of bundling Claude Code with their Max plan. That made a lot of users jump ship from Cursor and the difference is night and day for me. Yes I pay 5 times more than I did with cursor, but still less than using API credits and the results for me have been superior.