"We are living in times of great change” - I speak to AWS’ top AI minds to hear how it wants to open up agents (and building) to everyone
AWS AI heads tell us why the future of work is all about agents
· TechRadarFeatures By Mike Moore published 23 December 2025
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AI and agents were big focuses at AWS re:Invent 2025, with the cloud giant unveiling a host of new services and platforms to supercharge capabilities and encourage wider usage.
But with so much hype and speculation around the technology, how realistic can these lofty goals actually be? I spoke to some of the leading minds at Amazon and AWS to find out more.
Empowering with AI
"We want to empower every application developer to be an agentic developer who builds agents that are reliable, trustworthy, secure and making it super easy to build,” Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President, Agentic AI at AWS, starts off our briefing by boldly declaring.
"Developers are no longer constrained by programming languages and syntax, so the speed of development is going from years to months, and months to weeks.”
Sivasubramanian notes how, “every job discipline is fundamentally getting turbo-charged with AI agents" - and this includes the company’s new “frontier agents”, which look to handle monotonous or time-intensive tasks so a human employee can focus on most engaging work, such as writing code, and Kiro, an agentic IDE for vibe coding, which Sivasubramanian says has had an “amazing reaction” from hundreds of thousands of users already signing up ahead of its now-open general availability.
“The great news is this is just the start,” he says, “in many ways, the world of software development is going to fundamentally change”, noting how the role of a full stack developer will move from being someone who simply wears many hats, to someone who can work with agentic teammates to create the future - what the company calls “renaissance developers”.
Looking internally is another key motivator and inspiration, he adds, with the scale of Amazon itself, covering everything from ecommerce to cloud computing to rockets, means its internal workflows can be a good initial use case.
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