Kiro: A new agentic IDE

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

The original submission to HN stated that it was from Amazon / AWS in the title of the submission, however that has since been edited by a moderator to match the title of the blogpost, which does not mention Amazon / AWS.

To be clear, we have no intent to hide that Kiro is from Amazon / AWS, that's why you'll see Matt Garman, for example, posting about Kiro: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7350558...

However, the long term goal is for Kiro to have it's own unique identity outside of AWS, backed by Amazon / AWS, but more friendly to folks who aren't all in on AWS. I'll admit that AWS hasn't been known in recent years for having the best new user or best developer experience. Kiro is making a fresh start from an outsider perspective of what's possible, not just what's the AWS tradition. So, for example, you can use Kiro without ever having an AWS account. That makes it somewhat unique, and we aim to keep it that way for now.

I was at AWS for half a decade. I think a simple, from AWS or Sponsored by AWS, would have been good.