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Kiro

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AI ENGINEERING

26 September 2026 · 11 MIN READ

AI-DLC in a Team: the Agent Is No Longer the Bottleneck

In January I used AI-DLC alone, one developer and one agent in an IDE. This month I deployed AIDLC Collaborative, the open-source sample that runs the same method for a whole team: intents, human gates, parallel construction lanes, agents in isolated AgentCore sessions, and a platform that owns git. Two intents with the same 48 minutes of agent work took 81 and 284 minutes end to end. Here is what the team version changes, what it costs to stand up, the failure that painted 14 empty stages green, and what I have not verified yet.

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AI ENGINEERING

26 September 2026 · 11 MIN READ

Kiro Trusts One File. Here Is How I Stopped Editing It by Hand

Kiro's enterprise MCP registry is one JSON file behind one URL: whatever is in it, developers see; whatever is not, never starts. That makes the file a control point — and a hand-edited control point is a liability. I rebuilt mine as a generated artifact: AWS Agent Registry as the approved catalog, AgentCore Gateway as the only remote MCP endpoint, and a small publisher that turns approvals into the file Kiro reads. Here are the five decisions, the six things the docs did not tell me, and what I still have not verified.

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