AI Adoption Engineer · Developer Advocate · Advisor

Michael Lynn I help people build with data & AI.

I'm an AI Adoption Engineer at Cursor. For fifteen years I've turned complex ideas into clear talks, open-source projects, and hands-on workshops — helping developers and teams adopt AI-driven tools and modern data platforms.

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Based in the Northeast US

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15+

Years in tech

200+

Talks given

50K+

Developers reached

11+

Open projects

What I do

Turning hard problems into things people can build with.

Developer Advocacy

Meeting developers where they are — talks, workshops, and writing that turn dense platform concepts into things people can actually build with.

Data & AI Platforms

Fifteen years helping teams adopt modern databases and, more recently, AI-native tooling — retrieval, vector search, and agents grounded in real data.

Advising & Speaking

Working with founders and engineering teams as an advisor, and taking the stage at conferences to share what is working and what is still hard.

Selected work

Things I've built

All projects

Your Client Can Tell

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.

LanceScope: A Workbench for Reading LanceDB Datasets

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.

Claude Triage API

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.

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.

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.

From the journal

Latest writing

All posts

September 6, 2026

Wire Grok Bot to a Local LLM on Your Mac

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.

September 3, 2026

A LanceDB Table Can Hold 2.65 GB of Video While a Search Over It Reads None

The bytes a search touches and the bytes a table holds live in different files. LanceScope measures both, from Lance's own IO counters, and puts the number next to whatever you just did.

July 20, 2026

Cursor Is Hiring. I Built a Game So You Can Try the Job Before You Apply.

Cursor has an opening called AI Adoption Engineer, and it's a hard role to explain in a job posting. So instead of describing it, I built a small arcade game where every mechanic is a piece of the actual job. Here's what it is and why I think it's worth ninety seconds of your time.

On stage

Recent talks

All engagements

Sep 2025

Hello, New York.

Jacob K. Javits Convention Center

Sep 2025

MongoDB Developer Day Charlotte

The Mint Museum – Uptown

Aug 2025

MongoDB—Redefining the Database in the AI Era

MGM Grand

May 2025

MongoDB Developer Day Dallas

Microsoft Technology Center

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