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by NathanKP 1y ago
The original submission to HN stated that it was from Amazon / AWS in the title of the submission, however that has since been edited by a moderator to match the title of the blogpost, which does not mention Amazon / AWS. To be cl
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by NathanKP 1y ago
I have a personal deployment of the game, but it costs money to run the LLM so I'm not sharing that with all of Hacker News haha. I've got an appsec ticket open to host an "official AWS" version where AWS pays the LLM bi
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by NathanKP 1y ago
Yeah it would be nice if there was one way to specify the rules and intent, but you know how these things go: https://xkcd.com/927/ In all seriousness, I'm sure this will become more standardized over time, in the
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by NathanKP 1y ago
Unfortunately, midway through the project I lost the file where I was keeping track of all the prompts I used as I built. I do have some of them, plan to publish a wrap up analysis of those at some point. If you were referring to the prompt
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by NathanKP 1y ago
It has grown over time as Kiro has developed. Many of the most recent features in Kiro were developed using Kiro specifications. We have a Twitch stream scheduled with some engineers from the Kiro team where we plan to take live Q&A abo
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by NathanKP 1y ago
At the prompt: "I have extensively used Copilot, Continue, Cursor, Cline, Aider, Roo Code, and Claude Code. I do not want to move my files over again for Kiro [even if it's as simple as dragging and dropping files]. Do it for me&q
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by NathanKP 1y ago
Thanks a lot! I plan to fork the project and make a generic version that runs entirely locally using your GPU to do everything. My early tests ran pretty well on NVIDIA 5070. So that's next on my project list to open source in my free
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by NathanKP 1y ago
It's hard to directly compare, but 3000 interactions should be very, very high. Think of each of these 3000 interactions as you supplying a prompt that potentially runs for 3-5 minutes of Kiro iterating away on writing code. With appro
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by NathanKP 1y ago
> Does Kiro have some special sauce for making this approach work better? I'd like to think so, but you'd have to compare the results to what you are currently doing to see how you feel about it. I personally love the format th
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by NathanKP 1y ago
MCP is great, but it adds a lot of extra latency. The MCP servers themselves will stuff your context full of tool details, taking up valuable tokens that could be spent on code context. Then at runtime the LLM has to decide to call a tool,
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by NathanKP 1y ago
I'll look into this. Kiro is supposed to be doing progressive reindexing. When you make a change it should only have to reindex the files that changed. If you have any logs or other data you are willing to share, to help the team inves
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by NathanKP 1y ago
I've got a longer personal blogpost coming soon! But in the meantime I'm also the author of the "Learn by Playing" guide in the Kiro docs. It goes step by step through using Kiro on this codebase, in the `challenge` bran
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by NathanKP 1y ago
I believe that the file indexing exclusion is based on .gitignore, not files.watcherExclude, but let me check on that and confirm.
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by NathanKP 1y ago
You can do that! There is an AWS IAM Identity Center option for login as well: https://kiro.dev/docs/reference/auth-methods/#aws-iam-identi... We really need to add some more step by step docs for setting thi
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by NathanKP 1y ago
Stay tuned! I think there is definitely room for a CLI version as well. That said, IDE's have a significant advantage over CLI because of the features available to them. For example, the reason why IDE's feel "slow" is o
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by NathanKP 1y ago
A few things: 1) It's normal for Kiro (and almost every AI editor) to use a lot more CPU when you first start it up, because it is indexing your codebase in the background, for faster and more accurate results when you prompt. That ind
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by NathanKP 1y ago
Realistically, none of the models can function fully autonomously at this point. You still need a skilled human at the helm. However, AI tools definitely change how the human works. I find that I spend a lot less time thinking about easy th
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by NathanKP 1y ago
It works great in really large codebases! I've published a sample project that is medium sized, about 20k lines encompassing a game client, game server, and background service: https://github.com/kirodotdev/spirit-
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by NathanKP 1y ago
Thanks for the additional info!
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by NathanKP 1y ago
Thanks so much for your feedback Corey! That's one of the big goals of Kiro: to add a bit more of the rigor required to keep your code projects sane as they grow over time. I think Kiro hits the best of both worlds: the easy fun of &qu
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by NathanKP 1y ago
Thanks for the report! I'll keep an eye on it. So far we aren't seeing any other reported issues, so it's possible that a browser extension, or something else in your setup is messing with the SSO flow. Redirect back to local
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by NathanKP 1y ago
This is much more tricky than you'd think. Claude Code and other similar tools only work as well as they do because the prompts that power it have been tuned to match a specific model. When you make a tool that is "model agnostic&
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by NathanKP 1y ago
Kiro does have autocomplete. It's just not advertised on the product page as a star feature. In my experience using Kiro you are still going to be hands on with the code. Personally I choose to turn AI powered autocomplete off because
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by NathanKP 1y ago
I love Claude Code too, and it definitely has it's place. I think that IDE's have a few advantages over CLI tools though. In specific the IDE has a lot more contextual information such as what files you have open, warnings from li
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by NathanKP 1y ago
Kiro is created by an AWS team, and originates from AWS expertise. We are using Kiro internally as one of our recommended tools for development within AWS (and Amazon). So Kiro is an official AWS product, however, we are also keeping it sli
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by NathanKP 1y ago
At this time Kiro is a standalone product that does not require an AWS account at all. Kiro is powered by Bedrock behind the scenes, but it has a layer of abstraction between Kiro and Bedrock, which includes system prompts and additional fu
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by NathanKP 1y ago
You will be happy to find out that Kiro is quite good at this! One of my favorite features is "Steering Rules". Kiro can help you write steering rules for your projects, and the steering rules that it auto generates are actually s
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by NathanKP 1y ago
Currently specifications are mostly static documents. While they can be refreshed this is a more manual process, and if you do "vibe coding" via Kiro it can make code changes without updating the specs at all. I find the best way
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by NathanKP 1y ago
There is a model picker that currently allows you to switch between Claude Sonnet 4.0 and Claude Sonnet 3.7 And yes, Kiro is agentic, so it can (and often does) execute a long running multi-turn workflow in response to your interactions, ho
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by NathanKP 1y ago
Actually yes! I saw this post some months ago, and thought to myself: "Wow this is really close to what we've been building". Kiro uses three files though: requirements, design, and then tasks. The requirements doc is a bunch

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