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• An App Built for One: Why a Devpost Skill Pack Made Me Spec It Anyway

  What surprised me is who asks the questions. I usually build with Kiro, where I write the spec and the agent works from it. The skill pack flips that. It interviews you, one question at a time, and writes the plan from your answers. Scope first, then the PRD (what the app does, screen by screen), then the spec (how it's built). I approved each document before the next one started. - Source: dev.to / 13 days ago

• Spec-driven development has a verification hole

  The argument is sound. When generating an implementation becomes cheap, the quality of the specification becomes the constraint. Sean Grove's framing in The New Code is the clearest statement of it: prompts are transient, while a versioned spec aligns humans and models over time. GitHub's Spec Kit, AWS Kiro and Claude Code have all built real tooling on that premise. At the radical end of the movement, humans only... - Source: dev.to / 17 days ago

• Are Frontend Developers Cooked? Is Frontend design safe?

  To test this I picked something with a lot of small UI pieces. I had Kiro Crew recreate the old Winamp MP3 player, and it came back as ErikAmp. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

• Would You Choose a Library Because AI Writes It Better?

  I was at a conference recently and watched Joel Hooks talk about Effect. Effect homepage h1 advertises that it's the "Reliable TypeScript for the AI era". Joel explained that AI agents (Kiro, Claude Code, etc) can write way better TypeScript with Effect then he could ever do by himself. It made me start thinking, is this the future? - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• GitGuardian Power for Amazon Kiro: Secrets Detection Built Into the Agent

  Amazon Kiro is an AI-powered IDE that combines agentic coding with spec-driven development. Powers are packages of expertise and tooling that activate on demand based on keywords in your conversation. Mention "secrets" or "API keys" in a Kiro session, and the GitGuardian Power loads automatically. When the task changes, it unloads, keeping the agent's context focused on the task at hand rather than loading every... - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• I deleted my source code and regenerated it in a different language

  2025 was the year the industry moved to specifications. GitHub Spec Kit brought structure to agent workflows. Amazon Kiro built an IDE around requirements, design, and tasks. Tessl made the strongest commercial case that specs are durable and code is disposable. Sean Grove of OpenAI put it memorably in The New Code: code is a lossy projection of the specification. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Nuxt vs SvelteKit: What works better?

  BTW, I used Kiro for all my research for this post and video! Check it out , it's an amazing harness! - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Trusting Kiro for Agentic Development

  While all the attention is collected over OpenAI Codes, Claude Code and Cursor, Kiro has its own circle with its own capabilities and potential. It's a tool officially built by AWS, and kiro.dev is the site to learn all about it. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• TanStack Start vs Nuxt: One Framework to rule them all?

  One last note. I did all the research for the video and this post in Kiro, an agent that works on the IDE, CLI and Web. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Nano Banana 2 Lite with Kiro

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• The most popular AI coding skills right now

  In other words these are agent skills, and they've blown up over the past year into one of the most-starred new categories of developer tooling. The format started at Anthropic, a SKILL.md file with a short description and a set of instructions, and now it works in Claude Code, Kiro and all your other favorite coding agents. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Beyond Lines of Code: Developers Explain How AI Is Changing Productivity Measurement

  "As implementation becomes cheaper, judgment becomes more valuable." — Nathan Jones, Sr. Manager, Kiro. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Kiro Explained: From Vibe Coding to Production Engineering

  Kiro.dev — download is free, no AWS account required. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Spec-Driven Development with OpenSpec

  One reason I liked OpenSpec more than others, such as Kiro and SpecKit, is that OpenSpec is highly portable between coding assistants, codebases and stages of development. I've plugged OpenSpec into all sorts of projects, from infrastructure to Python libraries. I also work on diverse codebases, with a variety of AI friends that OpenSpec supports: OpenCode, Codex and Claude Code. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Mix and Match: Running Kiro on Google Cloud Shell

  Kiro: Bring engineering rigor to agentic development. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• 8 Vite Config Options Every Developer Should Know (Vite 8)

  I put this post together using Kiro, an AI-powered IDE. The forwardConsole option in section 1 is something Kiro benefits from directly. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Less Toil, More Flow - Automating the Path from Request to Implementation

  The tools: Slack Workflows, Linear Slack Integration, Linear MCP server, and Kiro with 2 custom Skills: Ticket Triage and Platform Support. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• AWS Just Made Its MCP Server Generally Available. Here's What It Actually Gives AI Agents.

  The MCP Server can be integrated with any AI agent that supports MCP, including Claude Code, Kiro, Cursor, and Codex. The full setup guide lives in the AWS MCP Server User Guide. You'll need uv installed (curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh) before wiring up the proxy. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• KiroGraph: from a personal side project to community-AI-driven tool

  Semantic code knowledge graph for Kiro: fewer tool calls, instant symbol lookups, 100% local. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• I Refused to Write Specs Until Claude Code Generated Wrong Code Three Times

  This isn't original to me. The 2026 wave of spec-driven tooling (OpenSpec, cc-sdd, amux, Kiro) is all built on the same observation. GitHub Copilot Workspace doesn't even let you skip the step: it generates an editable "proposed specification" before it touches code, because the team that built it figured out that the spec is the only artifact in the workflow that the human can actually review. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• Make 'em remember! Memory in the agentic AI project

  I used spec-driven development with Kiro, along with Kiro Powers and built a multi-agent project, for users to ask questions about their AWS infrastructure and get answers in human readable way. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago