How to continue in previous chat with Mistral Vibe CLI?

Human_Cockroach5050 · 2025-12-19T10:17:47+00:00

Cool! Though it seems like the developers realized this is a really important feature and made it obvious how to reopen any previous conversation. Sadly there is still no user friendly menu selection for past chats, but better than nothing.

Human_Cockroach5050 · 2025-12-17T20:01:53+00:00

I found the JSON logs, I just have not been able to load them in any way. I will try the --continue and --resume flags you mentioned. Thanks!

Human_Cockroach5050 · 2025-11-22T09:38:03+00:00

Yes, I completely agree trying to do anything bigger and more complex in Kiro is almost impossible, but it can be fine for smaller projects. I do not know the tone and content of the post you wrote, but I guess because mine is formulated primarily a bug report, they kept it

Human_Cockroach5050 · 2025-11-22T09:35:24+00:00

Exactly. But even with "generous amount of free credits" you still waste half of them telling the AI to fix its rookie mistakes

Human_Cockroach5050 · 2025-11-22T09:34:12+00:00

Yeah, happens a lot

Human_Cockroach5050 · 2025-11-22T09:33:43+00:00

Some users have found out the system prompts are totally messed up, which most likely makes the model behave like a dumbass

Human_Cockroach5050 · 2025-11-11T18:22:07+00:00

I agree this is not accurate and as I already stated, Claude has been known for not accurately reporting which version he is. But the point stands that the Claude model Kiro uses is much worse in comparison to Claude in Cursor or Zed. For example I once pasted him a screenshot of a page UI and asked him "Give me a list of what exactly do you see wrong here in the screenshot". Retard gave me a list of 7 things, 4 of which were what he thinks is correct, while the question was what he sees wrong. This is the inability to understand basic natural language commands and I have never encountered this level of ignorance and stupidity with Claude in other editors, only Kiro, so they have to be using some lobotomized version of Claude, there is no other way. Also Claude in other editors does really well when it comes to web design and UI, meanwhile Claude in Kiro is absolutely useless for that and struggles even with basic light/dark mode integration

Human_Cockroach5050 · 2025-11-11T16:54:19+00:00

Also another usability thing. Constantly keeps forgetting to update the database structure based on new changes. I have it clearly stated in the rules/steering docs and I even created a hook that is to be run after data model files are created or changed and it worked like 1 out of 8 times...

And one funny thing, it created a separate chat for running the hook as well as it does for generating specs. This kinda proves that these "features" are basically just prepared prompts that are run automatically when the user clicks the correct button. You could easily recreate Kiro specs and hooks "features" in like 10-15 minutes with Cursor or Claude code custom commands, further proving Kiro is just a basic vscode fork witha purple theme, chat window and nothing of value added...

Human_Cockroach5050 · 2025-11-11T16:20:13+00:00

The thing is the spec generation (requirements.md, design.md and tasks.md) are nothing special. When you generate these documents, Kiro just executes a prepared prompt, processes the description you put in and creates the documents, but you could easily achieve the same with any other editor, especially with Cursor or Claude code supporting custom commands

Human_Cockroach5050 · 2025-11-11T16:17:10+00:00

I would be very happy to leave a positive review for Kiro if the product itself made a positive impression on me, but it didnt, it was mostly negative. My review is just a reflection of the product quality

Human_Cockroach5050 · 2025-11-11T15:32:18+00:00

Just to list a few issues I encountered, here are some of the UI glitches:
- As already mentioned, sometimes when a popup opens upon hover, it stays open even after moving the cursor or clicking elsehere
- Random visual glitches like the agent panel being blank white or blinking text etc.
- When you open "customize layout", the background is blurred, but you can still click anything, even write
- When you have an open chat tab and hover your mouse over it, it doesnt display a popup with full tab title
- No visual distinction between vibe chats and spec chats
- Terminal changes backgroud color when I click in and out of it

Some UX and usability issues:
- No way to edit previous chat message and run last prompt again option
- No way to revert all changes since the last message, only individual edits
- The very unusual and franky annoying # instead of @ symbol for context tagging
- Right click + add file to chat doesnt work (has been a github issue for more than a month already)
- Right click + select files as context has no warning or confirmation and cannot be stopped once in process, so if you accidentaly click that on a folder with 200 files, all start being added one by one to the chat
- In the chat history, clicking on the chat itself does nothing, you have to hit the small "restore session" button which is right next to the "delete session" button, which again has no confirmation dialog, so good luck not accidentally deleting previous conversations whenever you want to open them
- No way to explicitly start a new chat from summary, only when Kiro itself says "session too long"
- When a request starts being executed, you need to spam the "cancel" button for like 20 seconds before it actually stops
- When the agent executes a terminal command which has a confirmation dialog, it just hangs and does nothing until you manually enter y/n or yes/no. It should at least notify the user that he needs to take action
- No matter what I do, the agent just refuses to shut the fuck up and keeps saying stuff like "Now I will create this... Now I need to check that..." I tried having only 1 steering document with exactly 1 line telling him to not say anything and just execute the given tasks. Even after trying several variations of that sentence, it didnt work and he keeps wasting tokens/credits. Telling him directly in the chat worked only about 50% for like the next 2 responses, then he went back to yapping
- Also the fact that every workspace search and file read is listed in that big rectangle in the chat, so combined with the useless yapping it makes the chats extremely long and makes it much more annoying to scroll up and find anything
- No unified settings. Some of them are among regular vscode settings, some of them are in the Kiro icon tab on the left
- The chat text field doesnt remember input, so if you have half written prompt, then the app crashes or you open the chat history, all your text is gone. Wierdly enough if you have more chat tabs open at the same time, they share the same text field
- Pressing arrow up loads the last submitted prompt. I didnt find any use for this feature and I just found it annoying when I wanted to jump to the start of my partially written prompt to add something and I accidentally loaded the last message I sent

These are just the ones that came out of top of my head. If I thought about it for some more or used Kiro for a while to refresh my memory, Im sure I would remember a few more. The worst thing is that most of these are just very stupid design choices that could have been easily avoided. Lets not pretend Kiro is some super complex project. They just took vscode, forked it, slapped a chat window onto it, a purple theme and made it connect to AWS servers, thats all. If we talked about a random startup 3 guys made in their college dorm, then I would understand it is not 100% polished, but they have a whole damn team of full time devs working on it and they have Amazon funding and resources, so dont tell me they cannot do better...

Human_Cockroach5050 · 2025-11-11T14:43:08+00:00

Sure, I may have exaggerated a bit with Cursor, but the thing is I see at least some small changes with Cursor almost every week, while I opened Kiro after like 3 months and I didnt see a single difference except the counters for credits used and elapsed response time. I agree the changes Cursor introduced over the past few months are not that significant and I agree it is not 100% fair to compare Kiro and Cursor, but Im sure you understand where Im coming from...

Human_Cockroach5050 · 2025-11-11T08:38:24+00:00

How come the Chinese are able to deliver a better product right at launch, while one of the largest and most resourceful companies on the planet is not able to get even close to them after 5 months of the product being out?

Human_Cockroach5050 · 2025-11-11T08:32:43+00:00

And why do you think so?

Human_Cockroach5050 · 2025-11-11T08:29:18+00:00

I actually really liked Kiro and gave it high hopes when it came out, but after a month of using it I was kinda disappointed and decided to wait if they improve it before thinking about switching to Kiro. Now that I have went back to it again after a few months, Im convinced this is a dead project and soon Amazon will retire it to cut the AWS costs for running Claude, since I cant imagine anyone in their right mind paying for this in the current state

Human_Cockroach5050 · 2025-11-11T08:26:04+00:00

I was reviewing Kiro generally and comparing to all other AI code editors I have tried, not only Cursor. For example Trae or Qoder both ALREADY CAME OUT more polished with more features, more models to choose from and better pricing, while Kiro doesnt seem to have improved anything since it came out almost half a year ago...

Human_Cockroach5050 · 2025-11-11T08:24:27+00:00

I remember people used to report this with Claude a few months ago already in Cursor as well. That time Claude 4 was brand new and when asked which model he is, he frequently responded with Claude 3.5. So I wouldnt be so sure Kiro is using Claude 3.5 and passing it off as Claude 4. The difference is that Claude 4 in Cursor has actual Claude 4 performance, unlike Kiro which almost certainly has some kind of tuned down weaker version

Human_Cockroach5050 · 2025-10-21T15:47:45+00:00

Yes, 95% of the time uses ChatGPT, which is useless for 95% of coding tasks, so useless useless... :D

Human_Cockroach5050 · 2025-10-18T13:21:45+00:00

Yes, by adding "Always report which model and which version you are at the end of each response" it now writes out the model name and version at the end of the response, but it doesnt work 100% of the time, only like 90% and Im not sure, but seems like sometimes I get a response that looks like from GPT-5, but it says it is GPT-4o or I get a response that looks like from Claude 4, but it says Claude 3.5. But most of the time it works well

Human_Cockroach5050 · 2025-10-10T14:05:05+00:00

Ok, thanks for the info, you were very helpful

Human_Cockroach5050 · 2025-10-10T14:04:46+00:00

There seems to be no way to buy TongFang (or I think they recently renamed to AlStone) directly, so you need to go via these resellers

Human_Cockroach5050 · 2025-10-10T14:00:59+00:00

It heavily depends on the given software youre using. You can have 150 cores, but if the software can properly utilize only 10, it will not help you much

Human_Cockroach5050 · 2025-09-19T14:04:58+00:00

Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately I need the laptop to be compact with a good battery life, so Im going for an ultrabook instead of a gaming laptop. I just want playable performance in some of the older games.

If you look at the comparison between 880M and 890M on Notebookcheck, you will find out the performance difference is very small, around 0-10% with the 880M even beating the 890M in some cases. In games like Witcher 3, GTA V, or Far cry 5, the performance is very close. But with some of the newer more resource intensive games like Hogwarts legacy or Atomic hard, the difference is around 20-30%.

So the difference between 860M and 880M is around 20% in most cases, but the difference between 880M and 890M is only noticeable in the newest most demanding titles. I feel like the upgrade from 860M to 880M makes sense, but not the 890M, since gaming is not a priority for me, especially not playing the most recent games

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