AWS previews Kiro IDE for developers who are over vibe coding

Amazon Web Services has created what it's calling an "agentic IDE" that it claims avoids the pitfalls of vibe coding.

With the advent of generative AI, developers have experimented with using LLMs to rapidly generate and debug code in a process that's come to be known as vibe coding. But the code is often of low quality and requires more time to debug and modify than it ultimately saves. A recent study found that in some cases developers believe these tools are saving them time when it's in fact precisely the opposite.

AWS's tool is called "Kiro" and, as Deepak Singh, veep for developer agents and experiences, explained to The Register, it's built around a conversational interface that offers developers the chance to explain what they're trying to build. Kiro uses generative AI to produce its response, which initially takes the form of a ...