Kiro First Impressions
Building this site was also an experiment to evaluate AI-augmented coding paradigms. Biased by my long tenure at AWS, I chose Kiro.dev with its spec-driven development approach to run this experiment. The fact that I was an early pre-GA adopter with generous 1000 free task credits also helped. In this article, I share what worked, what didn’t, and how I made Kiro effective for my needs. The Kiro Promise Kiro’s product promise is to help developers do their best work by bringing structure to AI coding with spec-driven development — from prototype to production (see https://kiro.dev/). The Kiro IDE is built on top of Code OSS (the open-source foundation of VS Code). Its differentiating experience is the spec-driven development mode, in which you use the Kiro AI assistant to define requirements1, a design document2, and a list of implementation tasks3. By completing these with Kiro, you get functional code with documentation and tests. ...