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!
What is Cillers Developer Experience?
In "Cillers Developer Experience", Per Lange talks to international software development experts from the world's top tech companies and creative individuals. Learn from their experience to enhance your capability to build better software systems faster.