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i am on a real kick for doing web development work, so my side project for web development is... more web development.
a couple days ago, amazon recently launched its own AI-assisted code editor, kiro. it's literally just VScode but with claude code built in, and a bunch of agentic/MCP stuff that will manipulate files for me. it's got a free period where it's got something like 500 interactions/day for free, until they decide for this to not be the case. could be any day, i have no idea how long that plans to run.
the thing that caught my eye about kiro is that as well as doing your typical chatbot, it offers a feature where you can lay down a development plan for your chatbot to follow more strictly. you'll write in an idea, and it'll generate, in order:
- a base requirements list
- a design document
- a list of tasks to complete
and then it will go rush off to complete them. i actually really like this, i tried "vibe coding" a game in pyxel a couple weeks ago, and it was not great - i really don't care for the back and forth where you have a single idea, and the bot does it, then another, and the bot does it. bulk-writing down tasks treats my brain a lot better and it seems like the AI bot is also pretty good at handling it.
i spent my mid-teens doing this shit, time to spend my late 20s doing it.
my restrictions are:
- no original code of my own will be written
- editing of ai-generated code will be limited to just reordering existing code, mouse only
- there is a single copy of the AnT malaise-blue stylesheet to refer to when it comes to styling
- i go until amazon kiro has a pricing plan or i decide that's enough
along with that, my stack choices are:
- react + nextjs
- payload backend
mostly because it's what i'm using at work, and though i've really been eyeing go + templ + htmx, learning a new language like go through vibe coding seems like a recipe for a bad time.
that said, i already burnt through today's credits. so let's get right into that.