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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.)


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


So they are not leaders (Score:2)

by Quakeulf ( 2650167 )

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.

Can you interview your intern? (Score:2)

by CyberSnyder ( 8122 )

Probably get better results than when they just assign someone to you.

Troll sat alone on his seat of stone,
And munched and mumbled a bare old bone;
For many a year he had gnawed it near,
For meat was hard to come by.
Done by! Gum by!
In a cave in the hills he dwelt alone,
And meat was hard to come by.

Up came Tom with his big boots on.
Said he to Troll: "Pray, what is youn?
For it looks like the shin o' my nuncle Tim,
As should be a-lyin in graveyard.
Caveyard! Paveyard!
This many a year has Tim been gone,
And I thought he were lyin' in graveyard."

"My lad," said Troll, "this bone I stole.
But what be bones that lie in a hole?
Thy nuncle was dead as a lump o' lead,
Afore I found his shinbone.
Tinbone! Thinbone!
He can spare a share for a poor old troll
For he don't need his shinbone."

Said Tom: "I don't see why the likes o' thee
Without axin' leave should go makin' free
With the shank or the shin o' my father's kin;
So hand the old bone over!
Rover! Trover!
Though dead he be, it belongs to he;
So hand the old bnone over!"
-- J. R. R. Tolkien