Kiro / Agentic AI @AWSCloud. ex-@IBMCloud / startup. @UBC alum. Hikes, Snow, Deep Sea.

San Francisco, CA
Joined August 2008
Kiro now reads its own runs, finds where it messes up, and proposes a fix. It found and fixed several of its own bugs with meaningful impact. definitely worth a read if you care about how agents can self improve
Every self-improving agent hits the same trap. If it grades its own fixes, it learns to pass the test instead of getting better. The Kiro science team nearly shipped a fix whose entire gain came from one lucky run. Now in kiro-trace, the model proposes, deterministic code decides, and a human merges. The fixes that survived: → Redundant file re-reads down about 83% → Compaction retention up from 0.82 to 0.92 Full breakdown 👉 spr.ly/6010BHZrug
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FOSTERING THE FUTURE TOGETHER // Private Sector Partners Amazon’s commitment to Fostering the Future will equip millions of students with powerful SI tools and digital skills. Students at 132 universities worldwide can now activate Amazon’s Kiro free of charge, putting them on a path to shape their careers. I look forward to seeing the next generation of software engineers and innovators emerge from this new alliance.
Technology is reshaping how the next generation learns, works, and connects. Amazon is proud to join @FLOTUS through the Fostering the Future Together coalition to help learners safely and effectively embrace the technologies that will shape their future. Learn more: aboutamazon.com/news/policy-…
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Kiro Clients and Open AI models - pretty lit!
GPT-5.6 is now available in @kirodotdev, bringing our latest models into the workflows developers already use in production to plan, build, test, and review software.
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Nima Kaviani retweeted
Kiro Crew is here! 🚀 We open sourced this agent dev workspace tool today, used already by 39k users inside Amazon. This pace of this project is incredible: already at 500 contributors and 995 merged PRs in the last 2.5 weeks alone github.com/kirodotdev/KiroCr… What I love about it: 1. It starts work on its own. Cron jobs, webhooks, and messaging events kick off work with nobody at a terminal, and heartbeats watch a system until something actually needs me. 2. I can reach it from anywhere. I install one Gateway, and I can access the same agent and sessions from the desktop app, the dashboard, the CLI, Slack, Discord, or Telegram. 3. I can run it anywhere. A Mac, a container, or an EC2 instance that stays up when my laptop does not. The desktop app tunnels into whichever one I picked. Conversation history, memory, and knowledge indexes stay on that host. 4. It remembers. Tell it "always run linting before calling a change done" and that correction becomes a durable lesson, not a line of chat history that evaporates when I close the window. Failures teach it too, and after enough repetition of the same workflow it writes itself a skill. I can open the dashboard, read every lesson and skill it has accumulated, and delete the ones it got wrong. 5. It's actually safe to run at work. It enforces an OS sandbox, interactive approvals, credential redaction, and an audit log of every action. Try it in one line, then open http://localhost:5476 and start a conversation: curl -fsSL download.crew.kiro.dev/cli.s… | sh
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Nima Kaviani retweeted
From today's Amazon earnings report: "Kiro is up to 50% more cost-effective than alternatives and tripled in usage quarter over quarter." We're seeing that Kiro uses fewer tokens/credits for the same task and quality, so you get more work done with your subscription
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kinda the right advice when pid 207 is OOM-ing but you get the terminal wrong
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Excited to see Amazon Q Developer at the top of the SWE-bench leaderboard today!
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The CNOE Project — Creating an Industry Standard Internal Developer Platform Distribution using CNCF Technologies by @brandonleach and @nimak. Next week at KubeCrash. Register for free 👉 kubecrash.io/
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Nima Kaviani retweeted
Replying to @awscloud
@awscloud #EKS team is looking for SDE 2/3 engineers! (sig-node/kubelet/AMI/Karpenter/CNI/telemetry et al) interested? (caveat: US-only, specific locations)
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Nima Kaviani retweeted
A spot on the awesome ... AWS Open Source Strategy and Marketing (OSSM) team is open. You will get to work with @spotfoss @ke4qqq and other fine folks! interested? amazon.jobs/en/jobs/2596349/…
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I only recently learned about CNOE, and @_ediri did a great job motivating me to learn more about this platform building framework at #LoPUG
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At AWS, we are committed to our leadership principle on customer obsession, and by joining CNOE, we ensure that the participating members can have the best experience running CNOE practices on top of AWS services. very excited about this!
Announcing Cloud Native Operational Excellence (aka, CNOE, pronounced Kuh.noo), an open source initiative for building internal developer platforms (IDPs) started by @Adobe @autodesk @salesforce @awscloud and @twilio Learn more on the blog: go.aws/3EYL9zU
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last time I saw somebody try to build an "everything" something, it didnt end well. just saying!
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github down, anyone?
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Vancouver + Open Source + AWS magical!
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Nima Kaviani retweeted
Happy to see this blog post go live this week. Has a great overview of my AWS org's increasing contribution across many cloud native projects, including containerd, Kubernetes, and many others! aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensou…
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come chat with us at KubeCon!
Come and join us @awscloud  Container Day and booth sessions for this year's #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon. Together with @nimak have a booth session on Wednesday showing AWS contributions to the #CNCF @argoproj project with the new Scalability SIG aws-kubecon-eu.splashthat.co…
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