They are killing off Amazon Q Developer

Amazon recently announced they will be killing off Amazon Q Developer.

The few times I went hands-on with Q, it seemed like your generic run of the mill LLM, but I suspect it was fine-tuned to AWS’s documentation.

I mainly used it to tweak Athena and cloud watch insights queries. I am pretty sure I tested its coding skills but wasn’t impressed.

What is replacing it?

AWS seems to be pushing people to their new IDE Kiro, which is interesting that AWS is getting into the IDE game.

I would wager that they don’t plan on making much money on the IDE itself, but instead want to have a product that defaults the user to using AWS as the model provider.

Should you use Kiro?

I’m not really endorsing it yet. I tried it but was unimpressed and quickly went back to IntellaJ, though IntellaJ is not perfect either.

With that said, it has been a while, and I should really give it another shot.

Question for you:

What IDE are you using now and why?