Amazon hopes to jump start its AI coding tool Kiro by giving it away to startups
Is there a way for another AI coding tool to carve out a place in the hearts of startup founders — and go past Cursor, Cloud Code, Codex, Gemini Code Assist, GitHub Copilot, the many other AI-wrapped VSCode forks, and vibe-coding phenoms like Replit and Lovable? Amazon likes to use the tried-and-true method of giving…