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Developing with Kiro: Amazon's New Agentic IDE
My experiences testing Kiro with TanStack Start + React, Spring Boot + Angular, Open Source Dev Tools, and Internal Dev Tools
Each tool has carved out its own niche in the development workflow: Copilot excels at enhancing your typing speed with intelligent code completion, Cursor at debugging and helping you implement discrete tasks well, and recently pushing more into agentic territory. More importantly, I learned that Kiro's real strength isn't in quick, one-off tasks—it's in sustained development work where you can invest time upfront in creating clear specifications and then let it execute consistently over multiple sessions. As the AI handles more of the mechanical aspects of coding, engineers can focus on the parts of software development that require human judgment: understanding user needs, making architectural trade-offs, ensuring quality and maintainability, and solving complex business problems.
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