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Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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1016 points QuinnyPig | 2 comments | 14 Jul 25 14:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.437s | source
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NathanKP ◴[14 Jul 25 15:03 UTC] No.44561071[source]▶
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 projects. Kiro can take your basic "vibe coding" prompt, and expand it into deep technical requirements, a design document (with diagrams), and a task list to break down large projects into smaller, more realistic chunks of work.

I've had a ton of fun not just working on Kiro, but also coding with Kiro. I've also published a sample project I built while working on Kiro. It's a fairly extensive codebase for an infinite crafting game, almost 95% AI coded, thanks to the power of Kiro: https://github.com/kirodotdev/spirit-of-kiro

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theusus ◴[14 Jul 25 17:29 UTC] No.44562867[source]▶
Why build an editor and not a CLI. VS code is really slow for me and I would have preferred a CLI.
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1. Imustaskforhelp ◴[14 Jul 25 18:26 UTC] No.44563566[source]▶
There are still people not even using an editor, but rather using vibe-coding apps like lovable.

Also,I don't mean to be rude to cursor but the fact that they are literally just a vscode wrapper still, to this day makes me really crazy thinking that the value of an AI editor could be so high..

I think it was the lack of competition really, Cursor (IMO) always felt like the biggest player, I think there was continue.dev before that, but that's all I know before Cursor.

After Cursor became a hit, there are lot more things now like (Void editor?) etc.

Also, if you Find Vscode editor slow, try zed. But like my brother said to me when I was shilling zed, Vscode is just for manipulating texts and using LSP. He personally didn't feel like it was there any meaningful slowness to Vscode even though he had tried zed. Zed has Ai stuff too iirc

Now Sure, they could've created CLI, but there are a lot of really decent CLI like SST/opencode and even gemini cli. Though I have heard good things about claude code too.

Honestly, I just think that any efforts in anything is cool. I just like it when there are a lot of options and so things stay a little competitive I guess.

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2. nsonha ◴[15 Jul 25 03:53 UTC] No.44567685[source]▶
> just a vscode wrapper

Isn't that like all software. Before Claude 4 and Copilot agent mode, Cursor/Cline did a lot of work under the hood to achieve the same agentic capabilities, that stuff has nothing to do with VSCode.