A practical tour of AI assistants and approaches that boost coding efficiency and streamline build and delivery. Through live demos we explore tools like Continue and Cline – chat, autocomplete and agentic workflows – choosing the best-performing LLM per task, automating tedious steps such as generating conventional git commits, and using local models in a DevSecOps workflow.

Presented at Auckland Kubernetes Meetup (Microsoft NZ) – February 2025. Shared the evening with a Sigstore supply-chain security talk by Caleb Woodbine. Recording: youtube.com/watch?v=bHGRAGRaTiM