Bio
Jan-Niklas Wortmann is a Solution Architect at Cursor. Before that he led AI Developer Advocacy at JetBrains, and spent years deep in the Angular and RxJS world as a Google Developer Expert and an RxJS core team member, which is a long way of saying he has shipped a lot of code and broken a fair amount of it along the way.
Dev's Brew is where he tests what AI tools actually do for working developers. Not the launch-day demos and not the hype, the messy reality of using these tools on real code. He tries the thing, then tells you what happened, including the parts that did not work.
He is based in Munich, drinks more flat whites than he will admit to, and is usually mid-argument with an agent about why it rewrote a file he never asked it to touch.
What Dev's Brew Is
Dev's Brew is a practitioner lab for developers using AI in real workflows. Honest, show-your-work conversations for the developer who actually tried it and will tell you what happened.
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Recent Episodes
Dex Horthy - What Actually Gets You 2-3x With AI Coding
You can't get 10x with AI coding. Not today. Dex Horthy on context engineering, 2-3x without shipping slop, and why skipping quality burns a codebase into ash.
How To Ship Real Code With AI (Not Junk) ft. David Cramer
Sentry co-founder David Cramer on why 100x AI productivity is overhyped, how Warden found 100+ vulnerabilities in production code, and where LLMs actually help working developers.
Code Isn't Free - Mario Zechner on the Hard Truths of Coding With AI (creator of Pi)
Mario Zechner on building Pi, why stable agent workflows beat hype, local inference, open source pressure, and what it costs to ship real tools in the AI era.
A Google Engineer's Honest Take on AI, Angular, and the Future of Your Career
In this episode, I sit down with Minko Gechev - Google Engineer, former Angular team lead, and one of the most thoughtful voices on AI and developer productivity.We get into why AI won't replace engineers anytime soon (and what that actually means for your career), how Google'...
Editorial Independence
Dev's Brew covers all tools honestly. I work at Cursor; that connection is transparent and never dictates the verdict.