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The New Builders: Clare Liguori on Kiro & AI Spec-Driven Software Development In this New Builders conversation, Kate Holterhoff speaks with Clare Liguori, Senior Principal Software Engineer at AWS, about Kiro. They discuss Kiro’s Vibe and Spec modes, and how these both factor ...

Hear @clare.dev, Senior Principal Software Engineer @awscloud.bsky.social & @kateholterhoff.com discuss @kiro.dev for this RedMonk New Builders conversation. They chat about Kiro's Vibe and Spec modes, the importance of requirements, as well as Kiro's roadmap. redmonk.com/videos/tnb-c...

Introducing Kiro A new agentic IDE that works alongside you from prototype to production

Kiro: A new agentic IDE
https://kiro.dev/blog/introducing-kiro/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44560662

A ghost nightlight with the word Kiro

Thrilled for the launch of @kiro.dev today! We started with two main ideas that led to Kiro's spec-driven development features:
1) AI can help us build better products through rapid prototyping
2) Devs can declare their app's requirements to get better results from AI, close to production-grade code

Memories of a wonderful summer in Banff

YouTube video by A Passion for Soccer This was a great passing sequence #seattleunited #midfielder #soccerlife

This was such a great sequence of passing. It’s going to tough to do this on an 11v11 pitch in the Fall season

youtube.com/shorts/04kwN...

Building an Intelligent AWS Cloud Engineer Agent with Strands Agents SDK AI-powered AWS Cloud Engineer: MCP tools, diagram generation, AWS CLI access in one agent, and CDK-based AWS Fargate deployment

"Building an Intelligent AWS Cloud Engineer Agent with Strands Agents SDK" by Vivek V

#strands-agents #agentic-ai #amazon-bedrock #aws-cdk #mcp

Introducing Strands Agents, an Open Source AI Agents SDK | Amazon Web Services Today I am happy to announce we are releasing Strands Agents. Strands Agents is an open source SDK that takes a model-driven approach to building and running AI agents in just a few lines of code. Str...

Excited to open source Strands Agents today! LLMs have gotten so good at reasoning and tool use that building model-driven agents with Strands is easy AND powerful

Models + Tools = 🧬

Read more: aws.amazon.com/blogs/openso...

YouTube video by AWS Developers Model Driven Agents - Strands Agents (A New Open Source, Model First, Framework for Agents)

Fun chat about Strands Agents, I love it when the space station is involved in demos
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ausm...

Extend the Amazon Q Developer CLI with Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Richer Context | Amazon Web Services Earlier today, Amazon Q Developer announced Model Context Protocol (MCP) support in the command line interface (CLI). Developers can connect external data sources to Amazon Q Developer CLI with MCP su...

MCP all the things aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops...

SWE-PolyBench: A multi-language benchmark for repository level evaluation of coding agents Coding agents powered by large language models have shown impressive capabilities in software engineering tasks, but evaluating their performance across diverse programming languages and real-world sc...

And here’s the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.08703

Amazon introduces SWE-PolyBench, a multilingual benchmark for AI Coding Agents | Amazon Web Services Coding agents powered by large language models have shown impressive capabilities in software engineering tasks, but evaluating their performance across diverse programming languages and real-world sc...

Today we released SWE-PolyBench, a multilingual benchmark for AI coding agents. The scientists who developed the benchmark blogged about it

aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops...

Flowchart showing a distributed system that uses MCP to communicate with MCP servers running in Lambda functions.

The vast majority of MCP servers today aren't actually servers 😱 They run as a child process and communicate over stdio, a bit awkward for distributed systems trying to use MCP.

Backend apps can now run existing stdio MCP servers in Lambda functions with this new library:
github.com/awslabs/run-...

😇

That’s because they don’t let me do that anymore :)

Tottenham defends worse than my kids team.

How was that a straight red?

Rollover time

youtube.com/clip/Ugkx6LS...

Oh Arsenal!

Especially when Terry Bozzio does his thing around 1:52.

So good

Probably one of my favorite pictures. The Oculus makes for some good ones.

Kyle Walker looks done

Dusted off the work laptop for the first time in over 10 days. My January calendar is already full 🤔

The sun came out on NY Eve so we went and trained a bit (followed by some yummy tacos).

The kid and I managed to get a little birding in during the holiday break.

Laporta needs to go. This is a disgrace.

80% of the pictures I took last year were on the soccer field :-) 🤷

These were some of my favorite photographs of 2024

There's something to be said about having some of our key devices hardwired (Roon Server, Music Streamer, TV Streaming, NAS). Everything is just snappy