When we launched Amazon Q Developer, our goal was to bring AI assistance directly into the developer workflow. Customers adopted Q Developer across VS Code, JetBrains, Eclipse, and Visual Studio, using it for code generation, debugging, and chat-based guidance. Q Developer proved that AI belongs in the inner loop of software development.
Over the past year, we’ve learned that the most impactful AI developer experiences go far beyond code generation and completion. Developers need AI that understands their entire project: the architecture, the requirements, the tests, and the intent behind the code. It requires a purpose-built environment. That’s why we built Kiro.
What is Kiro? Kiro is an agentic development environment (IDE, CLI) built from the ground up for spec-driven development. Instead of reacting to individual prompts, Kiro works from structured specifications to plan, implement, and verify changes across your entire codebase. Key capabilities…
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