alt Hacker NewsI never understand why Amazon even bothers to build their own coding agent.
GitHub Copilot is in a somewhat similar place as Microsoft's toy but still different -- it was more or less the first coding agent/assistant, and GitHub/VSCode/Microsoft has enough user base and impact to influence individual users and enterprises' choices.
For Amazon's coding agent -- I just never see anyone outside Amazon even mentions Kiro or Amazon Q. Maybe a little bit when Kiro was offering tons of free credits. But I don't think it's even remotely relevant these days. I don't see news about companies adopting Kiro.
To me, it's just a matter of time before they are sunset, like Chime or a bunch of AWS products.
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Is there any proprietary Amazon end-dev/ops facing service that's worth using? I've never had a good experience with any I've tried - CodeBuild, Cloud9, Q, SageMaker, WorkMail, WorkDocs, Chime, OpsWorks,...
I love AWS at the infrastructure level, but their PaaS tends to be meh, and their end-user directed stuff is usually atrocious.
In fairness, Chime had tons of internal use and I quite liked it.
For Kiro, I agree with you, it seems like wasted effort and Anthropic / OpenAI are miles ahead in their tooling.