"AWS claims the vibe coding IDE Kiro is designed to avoid all the pitfalls of letting AI do your development, like surprise drive deletions and database wipeouts. Users will have to put a lot of trust in those claims. Aside from those worst-case scenarios, AWS is fully aware that AI coding tools have "introduced new friction" into developers' workloads. "You can find yourself acting as the human 'thread' that holds work together," AWS said, describing scenarios like contextualizing tasks, manually coordinating cross-repository changes, and collating information across tickets and pull requests."
"Amazon is incredibly confident in Kiro's ability to streamline development, confirming today during the keynote an earlier report that it had made Kiro its standard AI development environment across the company. "I've frankly been amazed at the impact this development velocity has seen inside Amazon," Garman said on stage."
AWS introduced three frontier agentic AI offerings focused on software development: Kiro (an autonomous coding IDE), a DevOps agent to simplify operations, and a security agent to secure code across the lifecycle. Kiro is described as maintaining cross-session awareness, continuously learning from pull requests and feedback, performing bug triage, improving code coverage, and making changes spanning multiple repositories while running in the background. AWS framed Kiro as avoiding catastrophic errors like drive deletions and database wipeouts, acknowledged new developer friction from AI tools, and adopted Kiro internally to boost development velocity.
Read at Theregister
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]