It's a dark, rainy Seattle morning! For the past 12 hours, I've been locked in with
@kirodotdev, and I'm coming up for air just to say this: the paradigm has shifted.
As a 15-year PMM vet who's been shipping AI products since 2022, I've seen the entire evolution from text editors to copilots. What the team at Kiro is building isn't the next step. It's the next reality.
After a brief test drive and some exciting interactions with the
@kirodotdev product team, I was graciously granted access. Their belief in the product is palpable, and it's easy to see why. My goal was simple: validate if an Agentic IDE could truly accelerate the creation of an "Agentic" product.
The hypothesis was simple: could I build a production-grade,
@awscloud-native backend for my new venture in 12-hour.
The result: It's done.
Not a prototype. Not a scaffold. A fully-functional backend leveraging Lambda, DynamoDB, and RDS, wired up and ready for production traffic. What normally takes a small team weeks was accomplished in a single, focused session.
Kiro isn't a "tool." It's an environment that possesses a native understanding of intent-to-infrastructure workflows. The context it maintains from UI components to infra provisioning code eliminates the cognitive overhead that kills momentum.
While other platforms sell the illusion of speed with high-burn credit systems, Kiro delivers tangible velocity. It feels like the essential UX layer that finally unlocks the full power of the "Agentic AI" vision championed by
@SwamiSivasubram's teams.
Seeing Matt Garman's strategy for this group come to life is genuinely inspiring. It's clear that
@awscloud is betting on true Agentic Development, not just code completion.
I'm now starting a 7-day challenge: take this backend and build the full public-facing Agentic product, entirely within Kiro. I'll be sharing the results.
Huge thank you to the Kiro team, and to
@ajassy for fostering a culture where this level of innovation can happen. The future of development is being built here, in the heart of the Amazon city.
The foundation is set. Now, to build the empire.