Amazon pushes in-house AI coding tool Kiro over competitors’, memo shows

Amazon suggested its engineers eschew AI code generation tools from third-party companies in favour of its own, a move to bolster its proprietary Kiro service, which it released in July, according to an internal memo viewed by Reuters.

In the memo, posted to Amazon’s internal news site, the company said, “While we continue to support existing tools in use today, we do not plan to support additional third party, AI development tools.”

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