Speaker Spotlight: Marvin Kruse – Kiro Made Me Do It: Falling Back in Love with Coding (the Hard Way)
Marvin Kruse shares his journey of rediscovering the joy of building software with Kiro – and why solid engineering fundamentals still matter when AI does the typing.
We’re excited to announce Marvin Kruse as a speaker at Agentic Conf Hamburg on March 22nd!
About Marvin
Marvin Kruse is Technical Lead at OTTO, bringing together teams, ideas, and tech in the IT Retail & Logistics division since summer 2024. He is passionate about thoughtful software architecture — both building systems from scratch and evaluating what’s already there. Distributed systems are his playground, and he believes in pragmatic solutions over perfection.
The Talk: Kiro Made Me Do It: Falling Back in Love with Coding (the Hard Way)
As Technical Lead, finding time for hands-on coding can be surprisingly hard — especially when balancing day-to-day responsibilities and life outside of work. In this talk, Marvin shares his personal journey of rediscovering the joy of building software with the help of Kiro by AWS.
Kiro’s spec-driven approach felt like a refreshing alternative to “vibe coding”: more structure, clearer intent, and faster progress from idea to running software. But that structure comes at a price. Writing precise specifications turned out to be far more challenging than expected, and blindly trusting generated output quickly led to surprises.
This talk takes an honest, experience-driven look at where spec-driven AI tools truly shine, where they introduce new kinds of complexity, and why solid software engineering fundamentals are still essential — even (and especially) when AI is doing most of the typing.
See Marvin Live
Catch this talk and many more at Agentic Conf Hamburg on March 22, 2026 at SAE Institute Hamburg.