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Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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1016 points QuinnyPig | 7 comments | 14 Jul 25 14:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.937s | source | bottom
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didibus ◴[14 Jul 25 18:30 UTC] No.44563614[source]▶
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 had to fork VS Code.

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1. smcleod ◴[14 Jul 25 20:41 UTC] No.44564994[source]▶
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.
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2. didibus ◴[15 Jul 25 03:09 UTC] No.44567524[source]▶
That's for the shell auto-complete feature which I turn off.
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3. grogenaut ◴[15 Jul 25 14:34 UTC] No.44571572[source]▶
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

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4. tmvphil ◴[15 Jul 25 15:45 UTC] No.44572361[source]▶
I turn that stuff off and just use `q chat` for everything, which actually works very well in my experience.
5. smcleod ◴[15 Jul 25 21:21 UTC] No.44575947[source]▶
I'm the one that logged this: https://github.com/aws/amazon-q-developer-cli/issues/844 Amazon really have dropped the ball with fixing it.
6. smcleod ◴[15 Jul 25 21:23 UTC] No.44575961[source]▶
It's not that simple: https://github.com/aws/amazon-q-developer-cli/issues/844
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7. didibus ◴[16 Jul 25 02:52 UTC] No.44578224{3}[source]▶
This seems to only be impacting if you have the shell integration configured no?

I don't have the hooks installed and the integration is disabled. I'm only using the q command for agentic coding, not for shell auto-complete.