Michael Lynn's Blog

I built a tool that marks every phrase in a draft that gives it away as machine-written, rewrites around them without moving a date or a caveat you wrote, and can learn your voice from a ten-minute spoken interview.

How I wired my Grok Bot agent fleet to oMLX on Apple Silicon for private local inference - architecture, setup steps, benefits, drawbacks, and a copy-paste agent brief.

The bytes a search touches and the bytes a table holds live in different files.

A console, CLI, MCP server, and macOS app for understanding a LanceDB database — schema, versions, indices, fragments and rows, with the byte cost of every read shown as you go.

A reference customer-support triage service on the Claude API — eleven labs, a fake outdoor retailer where you can file a ticket and watch it get classified live, and an open-source version you can point at your own helpdesk.

Cursor has an opening called AI Adoption Engineer, and it's a hard role to explain in a job posting.

A recruiting microsite where the job description is a playable Asteroids-style game.

You prompt, let it run, deslop it, re-prompt.

Everyone's talking about an AI-driven SDLC 'software factory.'

I learned version control back in the Subversion days, but I never learned how to work like a team.

I assumed Cursor was VS Code with autocomplete.

A practical guide to asymmetric retrieval: embed with the best model, query with a lighter one — and learn three different ways to get your docs into MongoDB Atlas.

A recovery companion app that brings together daily reflections, meeting tools, journaling, and guided support for people in sobriety.

A developer toolkit for building semantic search and RAG workflows with Voyage AI embeddings, MongoDB Atlas Vector Search, local inference, and MCP integration.

An enterprise-grade platform combining visual form building, workflow automation, and AI-powered conversational experiences with MongoDB Atlas integration

An intelligent assistant that leverages RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) and vector search to provide accurate, context-aware responses to technical questions about MongoDB

A tool that leverages AI to generate Mermaid diagrams from natural language descriptions, making technical diagramming accessible to everyone

Dive into the dynamic world of developer relations as I share what a typical day looks like in my role as a Principal Developer Advocate, from content creation to community engagement.

The first in a series exploring the development of Lightning Hire, an AI-powered resume evaluation system built to revolutionize the recruitment process through intelligent candidate matching.

Discover how Cursor's powerful rules system can streamline your coding workflow, enforce consistency, and help your team code smarter and faster.

Production-ready skill packages for AI coding agents.

A HIPAA-Compliant patient management system demonstrating MongoDB Queryable Encryption in a production-grade healthcare application.

A powerful command-line tool for generating Entity-Relationship Diagrams from MongoDB databases, with support for multiple output formats and relationship detection

A professional, production-ready starter template for building modern web applications with Next.js and MongoDB, featuring Material UI, authentication, and a comprehensive component library

Explore how different document chunking strategies affect the quality of AI responses in Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, with practical examples and code samples.

A deep dive into advanced indexing techniques with MongoDB

A web application for rapid provisioning and management of MongoDB Atlas clusters for workshops and training events.

An AI-powered design review system that helps teams maintain consistency and best practices.

Transform your ideas into clear, professional diagrams using natural language and AI.

The easiest way to build RAG applications with MongoDB - a lightweight NPM package for vector search and document ingestion.

Streamline your hiring process with AI-powered candidate matching and automated screening.

A productivity tool for managing and optimizing your daily tasks and projects.

An AI-powered sales analytics platform that helps businesses optimize their sales processes and increase revenue.

A modern banking platform built with MongoDB, offering secure and efficient financial services.

A planning tool for Developer Relations teams to track activities, allocate time across workstreams, and show where the effort actually went.

Learn how to navigate the challenges of a hackathon and maximize your chances of success.

Overcoming common public speaking fears to become a better communicator

Michael shares the painful story of his final alcoholic binge, waking up humiliated under his desk as his wife leaves him.