Cillers Developer Experience - JD Fiscus

11/08/2025 44 min Episodio 79
Cillers Developer Experience - JD Fiscus

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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 insteadEnjoy!