The Renaissance Developer: Building Better, Safer, & Quicker with AI-Powered Spec-Driven Development
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Demonstrates using the Kiro agentic IDE to add authentication to the Spring Pet Clinic with Amazon Cognito, generating steering docs, a spec, technical design and a task list, then running tasks and hooks to deploy. The agent uses MCP servers and Anthropic models, shows nondeterministic behavior requiring human steering, initially errors on first run but self-corrects after iterations, ending with a working login that restricts pet edits; claims faster fixes (e.g., +100 SonarQube warnings) and legacy modernization.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Renaissance development intro
- 3:43Five developer mindsets
- 12:21Demo setup overview
- 13:44Live spec with Kirro
- 23:49Design feedback loops
- 36:45Task execution hooks
- 41:18Self-correcting implementation
- 47:00Q&A
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