Kiro Basics
What company developed Kiro?
What is Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
What feature lets Kiro automatically suggest code completions as you type?
What is inline code completion?
What does "IDE" stand for?
What is Integrated Development Environment?
What does "git" primarily help developers manage?
What is version control / source code history?
What type of AI model generates new content like text, images, or code?
What is a generative AI model?
What type of application is Kiro?
What is an AI-powered IDE?
What Kiro feature automatically creates documentation for your code?
What are autopilot hooks (or /docs)?
What is the term for AI that can take actions autonomously rather than just responding?
What is agentic AI?
What testing approach writes tests before implementation code?
What is Test-Driven Development (TDD)?
What is the term for the text input you give to a generative AI to get a response?
What is a prompt?
What is the name of the feature in Kiro that lets you define requirements before coding?
What are Specs?
What file format does Kiro use to store specs?
What is Markdown?
What technique feeds relevant code context to an AI model to improve suggestions?
What is retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)?
What principle states a module should have only one reason to change?
What is the Single Responsibility Principle?
What architecture, introduced in the 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need," underpins most modern LLMs?
What is the Transformer?
What underlying AI technology powers Kiro's code generation?
What is Amazon's agentic AI / Claude?
What Kiro feature allows you to define automated actions triggered by file changes?
What are hooks?
What is the term for when an AI generates plausible but incorrect code?
What is a hallucination?
What architectural pattern separates an application into layers with dependencies pointing inward?
What is Clean Architecture (or Hexagonal Architecture)?
What technique fine-tunes a large language model using human preference rankings?
What is RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback)?
What is the term for Kiro's approach that combines planning and execution in a structured workflow?
What is spec-driven development?
What is the name of the design document Kiro generates that breaks requirements into subtasks?
What is a design document (design.md)?
What software engineering practice does spec-driven development most closely mirror from traditional methodologies?
What is requirements-driven development (or RDD)?
What theorem states a distributed system can only guarantee two of: Consistency, Availability, Partition tolerance?
What is the CAP theorem?
What parameter controls the randomness of an LLM's output, where 0 is deterministic and higher values increase creativity?
What is temperature?