How Micah Uses AI in Production at TechnologyAdvice

AI coding gets a lot more interesting when it has to survive production. In this simulive, Micah Shackelford walks through how TechnologyAdvice built its internal MCP, why the team centralized authorization and tool access, how AI is changing the engineer’s role, and how they decide when AI belongs inside the product itself.

You will see the MCP working against real Search Console data, hear how the team built it on Cloudflare Workers, and get practical guidance on skills, deterministic vs. AI-driven software, data privacy, and where human judgment still matters.

What you'll learn: 

  • Explain what an internal MCP can unlock for a company.
  • Centralize tool access and authentication without forcing employees to wire up dozens of separate integrations.
  • Decide when deterministic software is a better fit than putting an AI model inside the product.
  • Apply safer AI coding habits around permissions, PII, team plans, and human review.
You do not need to be an infrastructure engineer to follow the discussion. The focus is on the decisions and workflows behind the systems, not low-level implementation trivia.
  • 42m of video instruction
  • 1 lesson
Patrick Jones - Course author
Meet YOUR instructor

Grant Harvey

Grant is the voice of The Neuron, the daily newsletter delivering no-hype insights on how AI is changing the world around us, along with co-hosting The Neuron’s weekly podcast.