Internal messages: Amazon steers teams to use its in-house AI coding assistant Kiro for production, prompting criticism as ~1,500 employees push for Claude Code
- Amazon internally promotes Kiro over third-party AI coding tools including Claude Code. — Some employees have criticized …
Business Insider Eugene Kim
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Discussion
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@kylebrussell
Kyle Russell
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At least Meta gave up on trying to force the use of its internal coding Llama model
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@eugenekim222
Eugene Kim
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New: Amazon engineers are frustrated they can't use Anthropic's Claude Code in production without approval and are steered to AWS's Kiro instead. Highlights the complexity of Amazon's relationship with Anthropic. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
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@benjedwards.com
Benj Edwards
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“We have Claude Code at home” — Claude code at home:
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@jordannovet.cnbc.com
Jordan Novet
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“The policy prompted criticism across internal Amazon forums. In one discussion thread, roughly 1,500 Amazon employees endorsed the formal adoption of Claude Code, according to the messages.” www.businessinsider.com/amazon- engin...
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@ns123abc
Nik
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This is incredibly bullish for Anthropic but so bearish for Amazon lol [image]
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@gergelyorosz
Gergely Orosz
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Give engineers subpar tools, what could possibly go wrong? a) competitors out-ship AWS (eg Vercel, where Claude Code is used by so many and they are on 🔥) b) frustrated engineers interview elsewhere and take offers at places where Claude Code or similar is not banned Lovely
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@bryanrbeal
Bryan Beal
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AWS' total lack of a coherent AI strategy is a blessing to their competitors
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@vikhyatk
Vik
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this is how you know the claims about layoffs being due to AI are false
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@chrismunns
Chris Munns
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I see ppl at AWS talk about Kiro features that Cursor had 6-mo earlier, and workflows ppl using Claude and other tools a year prior, like they just discovered them. Major major disconnect with what is being done in their own customers with AI.
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@astuyve
AJ Stuyvenberg
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AWS friends, is this true? You really can't use Claude Code or any tool besides Kiro?