The Spec-First Shift: Amazon Kiro Rewrites the AI IDE Playbook

Amazon's replacement of Amazon Q with Kiro signals an industry pivot away from reactive autocomplete toward specification-driven development. By mandating formal specifications before code generation, Kiro achieves 23-37% reduction in logic errors—but demands that teams fundamentally rethink how they approach development discipline. This represents the field's admission that current AI IDE models fail at production scale.