Forbes July 14, 2025
Beware the ides of March. So said the soothsayer, warning Julius Caesar of his impending assassination, which would come on the “ides” (15th, middle day of the month) of March, in 44 BC. Today, that soothsayer might update his omen and tell software application developers that they should beware the IDEs that don’t “march forward” with agentic AI accelerators.
Newly minted this year, Kiro is an agentic integrated development environment (that’s our new ides here, or IDE) from AWS. The technology is built with the power of AI agents and also combines traditional software development lifecycle practices to create production-ready applications. Developers get the full AI coding experience, plus the structure needed for production.
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