E345 - From Chat Prompt to Working Software with Kiro

#345: Vibe coding works fine until your project gets complicated. That's the gap Amit Patel and his team at AWS built Kiro to fill. The tool launched with about six people in mid-2024, hit GA around October 2025, and the team still fits in a single room -- maybe a seven-pizza team by Darin's math.

The core idea is spec-driven development, but not the kind where business analysts disappear for five years and come back with a document nobody needs anymore. Amit's version: you tell the agent what you want in a chat prompt, it writes the spec for...