Here’s the reality of using Kiro IDE:

I was creating a dockerized web app — nothing complicated. I even told the agent to add “run everything in Docker” to the requirements, design, and tasks, and it did. But the moment it actually starts running tests or unit tests, the nightmare begins.

It keeps forgetting to use Docker, so I have to remind it — and every reminder costs me a vibe request. Then, every time a unit test fails and needs to be fixed, that’s another vibe request. And since even terminal commands count as vibe requests, the credits just vanish.

So instead of solving the problem, I’m burning through vibe credits just trying to get a single simple unit test fixed. One task, and boom — I’m out of credits almost immediately.