Despite new methods emerging, enterprises continue to turn to autonomous coding agents and code generation platforms. The competition to keep developers working on their platforms, coming from tech companies, has also heated up.AWS thinks its offering, Kiro, and new capabilities to ensure behavioral adherence set up a large differentiator in the increasingly crowded coding agent space. Kiro, first launched in July on public preview, is now generally available with new features, including property-based testing for behavior and a command-line interface (CLI) capability to tailor custom agents.Deepak Singh, AWS vice president for databases and AI, told VentureBeat in an interview that Kiro “keeps the fun” of coding while providing it structure.“The way I like to say it is, what Kiro does is it allows you to talk to your agent and work with your agent to build software just like you would do with any other agent,” Singh said. “But what Kiro does is it brings this structured way of writing that software, which we call spectrum and development, to specs that take your ideas, converts them into things that will endure over time. So the outcome is more robust, maintainable code.”Kiro is an agentic coding tool built into developer IDEs to help create agents and applications from prototype to production.In addition to new features, AWS is offering startups in most countries one year of free credits to Kiro Pro+ and expanded access to Teams. Behavioral adherence and checkpointing built inOne of the new features of Kiro is property-based testing and checkpointing. A problem some enterprises face with AI-generated code is that it can sometimes be difficult to judge accuracy and how closely the agents adhere to their intended purpose. AWS noted in a blog post that “whoever write …
