Vibing in Kiro to create a self-serve Portainer wrapper.
On a Friday afternoon with half an hour to spare, I tested Kiro, Amazon’s new agentic IDE, against a real-world problem: giving my team a simple way to start and stop Docker services in Portainer. With nothing more than a rough prompt, a PowerShell script, and a few “Trust command” clicks, Kiro spun up a working self-service dashboard in under 30 minutes. It wasn’t production-ready, but it showed how close agent-driven coding can get with minimal input — and why pricing and trust still matter more than the hype