Amazon Engineers Want Claude Code, but the Company Keeps Pushing Its Own Tool (businessinsider.com)
(Thursday February 12, 2026 @11:00AM (msmash)
from the eat-your-own-dog-food dept.)
- Reference: 0180780996
- News link: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/02/12/1530202/amazon-engineers-want-claude-code-but-the-company-keeps-pushing-its-own-tool
- Source link: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-engineers-grate-against-internal-limits-claude-code-kiro-ai-2026-2
Amazon engineers have [1]been pushing back against internal policies that steer them toward Kiro, the company's in-house AI coding assistant, and away from Anthropic's Claude Code for production work, according to a Business Insider report based on internal messages. About 1,500 employees endorsed the formal adoption of Claude Code in one internal forum thread, and some pointed out the awkwardness of being asked to sell the tool through AWS's Bedrock platform while not being permitted to use it themselves.
Kiro runs on Anthropic's Claude models but uses Amazon's own tooling, and the company says roughly 70% of its software engineers used it at least once in January. Amazon says there is no explicit ban on Claude Code but applies stricter requirements for production use.
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-engineers-grate-against-internal-limits-claude-code-kiro-ai-2026-2
Kiro runs on Anthropic's Claude models but uses Amazon's own tooling, and the company says roughly 70% of its software engineers used it at least once in January. Amazon says there is no explicit ban on Claude Code but applies stricter requirements for production use.
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-engineers-grate-against-internal-limits-claude-code-kiro-ai-2026-2
Can you interview your intern? (Score:2)
by CyberSnyder ( 8122 )
Probably get better results than when they just assign someone to you.
So they are not leaders (Score:2)
Any "AI" (it's just a broken LUT) that currently exists is based on stale, incorrect, and old data, with too much entropy to be reliable. I wish I could use it, but instead I have to develop my own to reach both determinism and economical scalability.