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Meet Kiro!

Ali Spittel on July 14, 2025

Today we're announcing Kiro, an agentic IDE that enables you do your best work with spec-driven development. Beyond offering agentic chat, Kiro int...
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Jason Dunn [AWS]

I'm excited to see this go out to the public after all the positive comments I've seen during testing! 🙌

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Glenn Trojan

Really interesting

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Ansell Maximilian

Hello, Kiro

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Algorethm

I started using it yesterday..... its awesome fr

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Ciphernutz

This is awesome 👋

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Ali Farhat

Great post! 🙌

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Kai Akamine

I'm itching to use it!

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Renald

Unfortunately, thet let too many people join the preview, without increasing their compute power and now every 5 minutes it stops working mid task, leaving code in a broken and unfinished state because "the current model is experiencing high volume traffic". Completely unusable in it's current state for any serious development.

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Tran IT

Overall it's good, but these out standing things need to be resolved

  • MCP is not working well
  • Can not apply the partial agent generated code like Cursor, it will apply all, you just can review what is applied (like git changes)
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Ali Spittel

thanks for trying it out and this feedback! Passing along to the team - could you also file your issues on GitHub? github.com/kirodotdev/Kiro/issues/... Thanks so much!

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igbojionu

How did U download it? Can U shear the exe. Am currently getting a wish list or is it not yet available for everyone?

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eerk

As cool as it looks, it seems that "base" VS Code is very quick to implement AI features these days. Can Kiro bring something new?

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Felix

Can it help with php?

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Muhammad Subhan Naeem

Is kiro helpful for beginners or not?

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Abdul Manan

Why new IDE when all things work in VS Code fine?

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Naufan Rusyda Faikar

Kiro to me is trying to address different problems.