Episode 79
Cillers Developer Experience - JD Fiscus
Cillers Developer Experience · Per Lange
August 11, 202544m 4s
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Show Notes
Meet JD Fiscus - Director of Research & Development, creator of the n8n MCP community node with 1 million downloads and host of Nerding I/O Youtube, in a conversation about AI-Assisted Enterprise Coding.
JD shares his experience and insights - some highlights from the conversation:
- 🛠️ Why he always returns to Cursor - loves their auto model feature that picks the right model for each task, keeping costs down while maintaining quality
- 🔒 His golden rule: human in the loop always - never ships code where MCP writes directly to database or GitHub without his final approval
- ⚡ Context engineering is everything - limits tools to 40 max, clears context frequently, and tasks out specific problems instead of zero-shot prompting
- 🌐 MCP servers are undervalued - most people just wrap APIs, but resources, prompts, and bidirectional sampling are the real game-changers
- 📊 Speed metrics are misleading - can't measure velocity the same way because you're working completely differently - focus on creativity and ability to pivot instead
Enjoy!
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