“Most of us do not start from a greenfield idea. We start from an existing codebase, a messy bug, or a design we already agreed on,” said Advait Patel, a site reliability engineer at Broadcom. “The new workflows feel like Kiro acknowledging that reality and giving people an easier entry point into the spec approach,” said Patel.
With Kiro’s first new workflow, Design-first, developers can begin from a technical approach they already have in mind, such as an architecture decision or implementation sketch, and have Kiro derive requirements, a design specification, and a task plan from that starting point, Ankit Sharma, senior product manager of agentic AI at AWS, wrote in a blog post.
The Bugfix workflow, on the other hand, is aimed squarely at brownfield development, where engineers are working on refining and maintaining an existing codebase.
