AI Tinkerers Raleigh - Agentic Coding at Amazon + Hands-on with Kiro

This article covers an AI Tinkerers Raleigh event focused on the future of software engineering, specifically agentic coding workflows. The author presented practical lessons from rolling out AI coding assistants at Amazon to internal developers and AWS customers. The event also featured a hands-on workshop with Kiro, where attendees used spec-driven development to build an application from concept to deployment, leveraging intelligent automation, consistent code generation, and integrated testing. Attendees received Kiro usage credits. The article is relevant to IT/technology as it discusses AI-assisted software development and coding tools.