I had Backlog.md on my radar for a while, but I never ended up using it. Today I decided to give it a try. Backlog.md is one of those tools in the galaxy of spec driven development. While it's "agent agnostic", its documentation and utilities assume a set of specific agents (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, …

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This blog post assumes you are somewhat familiar with Kiro specs driven development (if you are not, this is a great read) and the Ralph Wiggum loop (if you are not, this is another great read). When I think about Kiro specs driven development, I think about a two phases approach: the authoring phase and the execution …

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This is a short and unstructured blog post on some experiments I have been running using Kiro spec-driven development. I thought I'd share my random notes and observations. Last week I prompted the Kiro IDE spec engine with the following: I want you to look at the following doc pages and create a web application (using …

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The world is changing. Fast. I have been working in the generative AI coding tool space for about 3 years now. And it feels 70. I often joke about the fact that one year in generative AI is like three dog years and twenty-nine EC2 years. So, that checks out. A couple of months ago, I have participated in a series of …

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In this post, I am continuing my Kiro experiments to produce better specs outcomes. I am doing so using my demo app repository (https://github.com/aws-containers/votingapp). This is the same application I have used in my previous blog post Using Q CLI to validate the implementation of Kiros specs. For background, when …

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Many of us have one or more litmus tests for assessing the capabilities and workflows of generative AI code assistants. Simon Willison has his "Pelican on a bike". (One of) mine is asking a gen AI coding tool to perform this task: 1Create a new Flask route in a dedicated web page at the following path: …

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At re:Invent 2024 the Amazon Q Developer team has introduced a number of additional capabilities. Many of them are available in the IDE (one of Q Developer's primary consumption "channels"). One of the challenges I have noticed is that people are often confused by what they can do in the IDE, what …

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The CloudFormation team has been on a roll in the last 12 months. Among many releases, they introduced Git stack management, up to 40% faster deployments, stack visualization with Infrastructure Composer, adjustable timeouts and last week the team has introduced the timeline view for deployments. Being a very visual …

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It's pretty clear (to me) that Generative AI assistants users are coming to expect a certain level of personalization to their needs. For example, I was talking to Johannes Koch (an AWS Hero) and he told me "I get distracted by too much verbosity (explanation) of Q coming “after” the initial code generation." …

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Amazon Q Developer is what pays my bill and the generative AI-based code assistant I use more regularly. From what I am reading and hearing, the rant in this post may apply to other generative AI-based tools and experiences. I have, for a long time, been saying that using generative AI is like driving a car. You can …

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