Amazon Engineers Want Claude Code, but the Company Keeps Pushing Its Own Tool
1 40Amazon engineers have been pushing back against internal policies that steer them toward Kiro, the company's in-house AI coding assistant, and away from Anthropic's Claude Code for production work, according to a Business Insider report based on internal messages. About 1,500 employees endorsed the formal adoption of Claude Code in one internal forum thread, and some pointed out the awkwardness of being asked to sell the tool through AWS's Bedrock platform while not being permitted to use it themselves.
Kiro runs on Anthropic's Claude models but uses Amazon's own tooling, and the company says roughly 70% of its software engineers used it at least once in January. Amazon says there is no explicit ban on Claude Code but applies stricter requirements for production use.
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Re:Claude Code is pretty awesome (Score: 5, Interesting)
by Afell001 ( 961697 ) on Thursday February 12, 2026 @12:54PM (#65985156)
As you journey down this road of agentic adoption of AI is the degree of infiltration into a company's core, and then the "lift" of proprietary code that runs everything the company does. I foresee one of the greatest thefts in history as the companies involved in programming and training these models, and then hosting the data centers these agents "call home" literally walk away with all the distinct intellectual property that companies have built over time. This will truly be the end of proprietary code altogether. How long until all these $$trillion companies are now competing directly with the smaller companies that took advantage of AI adoption and transferred all their distinctiveness to the AI agents they trained, for them to hand it over every time they "called home"? It will be much akin to the US companies that were forced to cooperate with a Chinese partner company to enter the Chinese market, only to discover that the Chinese partner has taken the entirety of the Chinese market with free access to the distinctiveness of the US company, and no recourse for the US company because of Chinese sovereign rights.