JetBrains Junie vs Kiro: what developers actually say

Neither tool wins a head-to-head: approval is 60% for Junie and 59% for Kiro, and no commenter stated a direct preference. Junie has the larger sample (53 opinions, 45 firsthand) and better code-quality marks (8 positive, 1 negative), but its 90-day approval is 33% and the latest month shows 6 opinions at 17%. Kiro leads on UX (8 positive, 3 negative) and autonomy (4 positive, 0 negative), but reliability runs negative (2 positive, 4 negative) and there is no 90-day figure. Pick Junie for cheap, predictable work inside JetBrains IDEs; pick Kiro for spec-driven tasks where autonomy and UX matter.