Cursteroids
A recruiting microsite where the job description is a playable Asteroids-style game. Every mechanic teaches part of the AI Adoption Engineer role at Cursor.
Michael Lynn's Blog
Thoughts and insights on technology, development, and more
Latest posts
The Best Prompt on Your Team Is the One Nobody Else Can See
You prompt, let it run, deslop it, re-prompt. It works until the window closes. Skills, Rules, and Subagents are how you teach the agent once and let it remember — alone and on a team.
The Software Factory Is Here - and It Runs on Cursor
Everyone's talking about an AI-driven SDLC 'software factory.' Here's what that actually looks like now that Cursor has cloud agents, Bugbot, and native intake from Jira, Linear, Slack, and PagerDuty, plus the steps to wire each stage up yourself.
I Knew Git. I Just Never Had a Reason to Branch.
I learned version control back in the Subversion days, but I never learned how to work like a team. Here's how a protected main, a PR-only workflow, and Cursor holding the discipline finally closed the gap.
I Almost Didn't Try Cursor. Here's What I Was Wrong About.
I assumed Cursor was VS Code with autocomplete. Five wrong assumptions later, here's what actually changed my mind - and one low-stakes way to find out for yourself.
Asymmetric Embeddings: Building a Personal Brand RAG Pipeline with Voyage 4 + Claude
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.
AA Companion
A recovery companion app that brings together daily reflections, meeting tools, journaling, and guided support for people in sobriety.
VAI: Voyage AI CLI & RAG Playground
A developer toolkit for building semantic search and RAG workflows with Voyage AI embeddings, MongoDB Atlas Vector Search, local inference, and MCP integration.
NetPad: MongoDB-Connected Form Builder Platform
An enterprise-grade platform combining visual form building, workflow automation, and AI-powered conversational experiences with MongoDB Atlas integration
AI-Powered Mermaid Diagram Generator
A tool that leverages AI to generate Mermaid diagrams from natural language descriptions, making technical diagramming accessible to everyone
MongoDB AI Lab Assistant
An intelligent assistant that leverages RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) and vector search to provide accurate, context-aware responses to technical questions about MongoDB
Building Lightning Hire: Project Overview and Architecture
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.
A Day in the Life of a Principal Developer Advocate
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.
Boosting productivity with Cursor
Discover how Cursor's powerful rules system can streamline your coding workflow, enforce consistency, and help your team code smarter and faster.
Claude Skills
Production-ready skill packages for AI coding agents. A curated collection of structured knowledge bundles that give coding assistants deep expertise in specific domains.
SecureHealth
A HIPAA-Compliant patient management system demonstrating MongoDB Queryable Encryption in a production-grade healthcare application.
MongoNext - Next.js & MongoDB Starter Template
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
MongoDB ERD CLI
A powerful command-line tool for generating Entity-Relationship Diagrams from MongoDB databases, with support for multiple output formats and relationship detection
RAG chunking lifecycle: How document chunking strategies impact AI response quality
Explore how different document chunking strategies affect the quality of AI responses in Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, with practical examples and code samples.
MongoDB Indexing System
A deep dive into advanced indexing techniques with MongoDB
MongoDB Atlas Deployer
A web application for rapid provisioning and management of MongoDB Atlas clusters for workshops and training events.
Design Reviewer
An AI-powered design review system that helps teams maintain consistency and best practices.
MermaidGPT
Transform your ideas into clear, professional diagrams using natural language and AI.
MongoDB-RAG
The easiest way to build RAG applications with MongoDB - a lightweight NPM package for vector search and document ingestion.
LightningHire
Streamline your hiring process with AI-powered candidate matching and automated screening.
PDEffer
A productivity tool for managing and optimizing your daily tasks and projects.
Sellers Edge
An AI-powered sales analytics platform that helps businesses optimize their sales processes and increase revenue.
MongoDBank
A modern banking platform built with MongoDB, offering secure and efficient financial services.
10 Tips for the Hackathon Beginner
Learn how to navigate the challenges of a hackathon and maximize your chances of success.
My Last One
Michael shares the painful story of his final alcoholic binge, waking up humiliated under his desk as his wife leaves him. A friend's timely call helps him face reality, leading him to sobriety through AA. Now sober for over five years, Michael emphasizes that lasting change and a meaningful life are truly possible.
3 Powerful Things to Remember when Speaking Publicly
Overcoming common public speaking fears to become a better communicator