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Out of nowhere, Amazon just released its own AI IDE named Kiro.

Powered by Claude 4.0, Kiro promises to bring structure to AI coding with an approach it calls 'spec-driven development'. But can it really convince developers to switch from the likes of Cursor, Copilot or Firebase Studio?

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Amazon released Kira, a new AI-powered IDE that competes with Cursor and other VS Code forks. Powered by Claude Sonnet 4.0, Kira uses a spec-driven development approach that emphasizes planning through requirements documents and design specifications before code generation. The tool aims to produce higher quality code by preventing rushed implementation and appears targeted at enterprise developers who value structured development processes. Currently free to use, Kira represents Amazon's strategic move to compete in the AI coding assistant market.

AWS just released its Cursor killer…

I think Cursor has done a good job of killing themselves!

Can’t wait times when we find out that in order to produce better results with ai we will need to carefully specify the requirements in a very detailed manner.
It will be difficult to do with regular natural language, so we will need to invent something like a new language that allows coding logic in a way computer will understand. Omg I must be genius!
I would call it a prokilogramming language!
Jokes aside, regarding the IDE - I will wait a couple of months for everyone else to test it before I will try it myself.

It’s not a Cursor killer, but another junior developer skills killer

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