Rethinking Full Stack Application Development with Kiro
summary
Kiro claims to turn a marketplace prototype (React Next.js frontend, Spring Boot Java 25 backend, images in S3) into a production-ready feature by iterating spec-driven development rather than code: the demo generates requirements, pulls Figma components, produces a design doc, and creates a task plan. Kiro uses Kiro powers to call MCP servers (Figma, Playwright) and runs subagents in parallel to implement tasks; backend work that normally takes 16–20 hours is claimed to drop to 2–4 hours. The demo builds a user rating/review flow, completes the DB phase successfully, and shows ACP integration limits.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Spec-driven dev with Kiro
- 1:05Why spec-driven matters now
- 4:58Demo goals and app
- 8:09Kiro IDE overview
- 14:55Creating specs for review
- 21:20Design phase and Figma
- 24:08Task list and parallel dev
- 27:22Kiro beyond IDE
- 31:38Sub agents and profiles
- 37:21Production code with Kiro
- 41:18Q&A
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