And it helped me get back into tech without drowning
TL;DR at the end
Coming back to tech after a (maternity) break is a strange fe...
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Congratulation for your child(s)! Nice idea to simplify your media presents and organizate with one AI agents. I can tell you a saddly true I am always lost in AWS space, so many program so many possibilities, so I keep a distant with ( but my real work I need using a bit ) ... but this is just my problem I am a real simple.
So I realize my portfolio page is simple: dev.to/pengeszikra
because all of my post are created on Dev.to, I also too lazy to use another social networking place, so I think Dev.to is perfect.
Dev.to is definitely perfect!! Unfortunately for work I have to explore different platforms so content is spread out over the years!! Some content is even deprecated haha
I understand your concern with AWS. I am back after a year and it feels like so much has changed too! Hopefully I can help digest it in small meals and utilise it for our needs!
I’m not “behind.”
I’m just finding my way.
If you’re in that same phase, feeling like things are moving too fast, especially with AI everywhere, you’re not alone.
Let’s do it together. Let's figure it out, one small step at a time. Follow along as I dive deeper!
If this helps even one person feel a little less stuck, it was worth posting.
I feel like I just needed to read that.
Thanks a lot Rohini. You have absolutely helped me.
💜 Thank you! You made my day!!
Great article - yes, I think it's VERY easy to get lost in the AI coding tools space, because you can go down an endless rabbit hole of complexity and pitfalls without getting anything done - but you managed to avoid that and keep it simple, by choosing the "correct" tool for your project ...
So yeah, Kiro sounds amazing - but what was the reason you chose Kiro, instead of more well-known/famous tools like CoPilot, Cursor or Claude Code? But it definitely sounds like worth trying!
P.S. how many credits did the whole project cost you, if I may ask?
I have used cursor before, my experience was mixed. It did things well initially but then it would delete or modify things it didn't need to and that experience turned me off really. Claude Code is on the list to try!
Honestly, I used Kiro because I work at AWS, lot of my teammates have been praising it a lot and I get internal credits 😄 I am also "comfortable" with VS Code so Kiro didn't seem like a BIG change.
I estimate somewhere around 45 credits used in the project. I was very chatty lol
Thanks!
Well, I loved Cursor (the DX, developer experience), as it's also based on VSCode, and it was intuitive and easy to get started with - but, I used it only for 1-2 hours before my free plan ran out, haha ...
What I did with it (increasing unit test coverage by generating more unit tests) worked very well, it did an excellent job - but, I think it was really a "best case scenario": doing something which Cursor is really good at - and our existing unit tests were well structured and comprehensive, so what Cursor had to do was to just "ape" that ...
Which it did well - but, what you described about Kiro, well, I'm impressed ...
I'm reading a lot here on dev.to about people trying to "invent" clever AI workflows targeted at getting their AI tool to "remember" stuff (LLMs don't have 'memory' ...), to not burn a gazillion tokens, to produce some sort of quality code which is going to be maintainable, etc etc etc ...
... and everyone seems to be figuring out how to do all that, and is reinventing this wheel by coming up with clever and sophisticated "workflows" - which makes me think, shouldn't the tool vendors (Anthropic and so on) come up with better tooling/workflows?
... and now I'm hearing about Kiro, which seems to already have solved most of these problems? LOL !
P.S. 45 credits - means you could have done it on the Free Plan, because that has a limit of 50 credits :-)
I really liked the YouTube challenge section.
Rather than solving everything perfectly, it shows how the system iterates through failures and gradually converges on a workable solution.
That imperfection and persistence feel very human and memorable, even a bit endearing.
I especially appreciated how the trial and error process was made visible.
Thanks for sharing this. It was both insightful and enjoyable to read.
Thank you for your kind comment Rina! I loved the YouTube thing too!
Earlier I used to feel I was the one made to think about workarounds, but when Kiro discussed, tried and tested different approaches, it truly felt conversational!
starting with one concrete thing is genuinely underrated. I still catch myself trying to onboard everything at once when a new tool drops. the urge to understand it all is what actually slows you down.
Thank you, definitely agree! Initially I was overwhelmed and was wondering what is this hype about? Maybe I won’t understand until I learn all the terminologies and everything about it. People had a year with it, I didn’t! But then I reminded myself, I don’t have to do what they did in a year in a day, I just have to take one day at a time and build my own momentum!
That "everyone had a year" feeling is a trap though. Most of that year was spent building confident-but-wrong mental models. You skip that phase entirely by starting now with one concrete thing and clear eyes.
Love that perspective! Appreciate it!
thank you, its wothy trying, i will give it a try