Kiro: Amazon's unexpected Cursor competitor

kiro codes as if it is maximizing story points

I have been testing Kiro since day one, there’s lot of pointless things in makes in spec, I had to make a steering file so it would stop making pointless test and stop over generating, now it work like a charm, I can see Kiro being super good in the future,

I have been abusing the beta free tier since launch day and I must say that as of now is the best performing agentic IDE that works out of the box without having to pass it endless rules or having to tweak it.

Kiro reminds me of the 2023 cursor vibes. You prompt and get super long context back, he looks in all sorts of files. That's by far the best thing for me right now. The combination of Claude Code and Kiro will be mine.

Maybe someone at Amazon could use Kiro to add a search bar to the CDK docs

If you are not reviewing and trimming down the requirements to your *actual* requirements, Kiro will over engineer based on that neglected step. The steering files and others are great if you don't vibe the *requirements, design, and tasks*. Wielding a delete key is easy.

I have been using Kiro a lot. One thing I am finding helpful is to spec things out and for each stage (requirements/design/tasks) I then make it review the specs using Context7 and ask it to simplify the specs. That tends to help.

Wow - I hoped for so much more, but THANKS for saving me the pain of testing kiro. The idea of spec-based context (i.e. long term memory) is great. It's game changing. So I'll continue to roll my own. Someday everything will work...

“ai” waterfall we have come full circle back to 1992

This truly is an Amazon product