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AWS Developing AI Coding Tool Kiro with Customizable AI Agents

Amazon Web Services is working on a next-gen coding assistant designed to streamline software development, with a potential late-June launch still unconfirmed.

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Overview

  • Kiro is designed as a web and desktop application leveraging AI agents and a multimodal interface for real-time code generation.
  • The tool aims to auto-generate technical design documents, flag issues, and optimize code to enhance developer productivity.
  • Kiro will support customization through first- and third-party AI agents, knowledge bases, extensions, and themes.
  • AWS has not confirmed a release date, though internal documents suggest a tentative late-June timeline for launch.
  • The development reflects the rapid growth of AI coding tools, with major firms reporting 30% of their code is now AI-generated.