Spec Driven Development with Kiro: Ensuring Quality and Traceability in the AI Era
summary
Kiro runs as an agentic IDE built on VS Code and enforces a specs‑first workflow: requirements → design → task list, with AI executing tasks only after explicit human approval. It generates tests, makes specs as single source of truth, and adds hooks that add license headers and docs or run linting so every code change links back to a requirement. It speeds development but sometimes stalls and still requires human debugging.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:31Why spec-driven development matters
- 3:39What is spec-driven development
- 13:14Introducing Curo by Amazon
- 20:41Steering files and project setup in Curo
- 26:49Requirements, design and task lists in specs
- 31:05Hooks and agentic IDE workflows
- 34:51Best practices with Curo
- 36:59From coding to product mindset
- 39:51Future of AI in development
- 40:11Q&A: Syncing with Jira
- 40:53Q&A: Spec-driven vs waterfall
- 41:57Q&A: Debugging AI issues
- 43:01Q&A: Language models in Curo
- 44:03Q&A: Keeping specs updated
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