The morning standup has just ended, and there is ominous news. The latest feature needs to ship today, but something’s wrong. Is it corruption in the code? A gremlin in the workflow? Commits lost to the void?
The build is failing. The logs are cryptic. The coffee is running low. And then… the owlbear appears.
Not in the logs. Not in the stack trace. But somewhere deep in the pipeline, lurking. Nobody knows who added it or why, but it’s there — crashing builds, hooting ominously, and clawing at CI/CD. You must face it or risk the entire sprint.
Adventurer, you’ve been chosen to undertake a perilous quest to find the problem, right the code, and get the feature shipped. But time is running out. If you cannot push your changes before the deadline, the entire system may fall into a never-ending cycle of crunch time and hotfix patches.
You are the only one who can stop it, but it’s dangerous to go alone! Assemble your party! Choose an AI code assistant to journey at your side. Who will be your companion on this perilous quest?
When you have a problem, sometimes you just want to cast Magic Missile at it. And that’s when you need a wizard. Every party needs a magic user, someone who can make useful items appear out of thin air and bad guys vanish to another plane of existence. GitHub Copilot is a spell slinger for any adventurer working in GitHub, using context to autocomplete and generate suggestions for code, and automating some of the more repetitive coding tasks. Copilot uses its arcane knowledge to create secure code, speed up the coding process, and teach developers new languages (and we don’t mean Draconic), coding patterns, and best practices.
A cleric has a very important job — keeping your party alive despite your best efforts. Clerics heal wounds, support the team, and bring you back to life when you’ve made one bad choice too many. Cursor’s specialty is debugging and refactoring code, banishing bugs, and healing your code so it can get out there and do its thing. Cursor also provides guidance; an AI chat inside VS Code provides you with wisdom and help in real time so that your code remains strong.
Bound by an oath to protect and guided by a strict code of honor, the paladin is a guardian. Amazon Q is sworn to protect AWS systems, focused on security, compliance, and protection. All Paladins are heavily armed, and Amazon Q is no exception. A heavy-duty version of Amazon’s CodeWhisperer, Q manages enterprise workflows and cloud operations as well as code. If you also work with AWS, Amazon Q is a natural partner on your quest.
A bard is more than just a pretty face who can absolutely shred a lute solo — bards are also the keepers of lore and knowledge, old languages, and even more ancient songs. Poolside AI specializes in old programming languages, automating legacy code migrations, converting old languages like COBOL, Fortran, and Java into Python, JavaScript, and modern frameworks. It’s worth noting however, that this is Poolside’s special use. Just as you might not bring a bard to a battle, you shouldn’t use Poolside for general coding use. If you’re modernizing an old system, however, consider tossing a coin to Poolside AI.
What is good in life? To conquer your project and lead it to victory. You can do that with a barbarian on your side, a tank of unparalleled strength and ferocity, someone who rages in battle and drinks the local tavern dry afterward. Like all legendary barbarians, Cody AI has Herculean appetites — for data. Cody devours massive codebases, using entire repositories to generate its code suggestions. It doesn’t matter if the codebases are proprietary or legacy. Cody AI will plunder them all in service of your quest.
The druid is in tune with the land, drawing their magic from the earth and seeking balance within nature. Google Gemini, which runs on Google’s carbon-neutral data centers, is both a sustainable and formidable companion. Druids are versatile, shifting into wildshape to suit any challenge; Gemini embodies this versatility by generating code based on diagrams, screenshots, or text descriptions. However, like all druids, Gemini is tied to its ecosystem — it's best suited to developing software for Google and Android.
Need someone fast? Someone agile? Someone discreet? We know a guy. Rogues are known for their stealth and speed, their agility and dexterity. They’re adaptable, able to integrate into any crew — or any crowd — and they get the job done. Windsurf is a classic rogue: nimble and quick, offering nearly-instant AI-powered code completion and slipping into a variety of tool stacks with very little trouble. Windsurf is also a charmer, supporting more than 70 languages — so it’s just as comfortable at a Python party as it is at a Haskell tavern. It’s also free, and as any rogue will tell you, free is the best price.
You can’t know how well your party is performing if you’re not able to measure progress on your quest
Opsera Unified Insights simplifies DevOps measurement, delivering insights into your AI companion’s impact on DevEx, productivity, ROI trends, and downstream value. By connecting all your DevOps tools across the entire software delivery process, Opsera provides a complete character sheet for your AI of choice, showing you all their stats in one place.
Are you ready to roll for initiative? Learn more about Opsera Unified Insights and the benefits of a unified view of DevOps.
