From Shell Scripts to MCP Servers: How SEO Broke My Brain (in a Good Way)

May 26, 2026 · 5:56 PM UTC ·5 min read · 0 reactions · 0 comments · 34 views

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The article discusses the author's evolution in technical SEO over 20 years, highlighting the shift from traditional automation to prompt engineering with AI. The author emphasizes the importance of creating behavior specifications for AI instructions to achieve consistent and actionable outputs. Additionally, the integration of AI tools into the author's workflow has transformed their approach to coding and design tasks.

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▪The author has been involved in technical SEO for two decades, starting with simple automation like shell scripts.
▪A significant change occurred when the author began to focus on behavior specifications rather than just using AI for autocomplete tasks.
▪The author developed a set of design rules and guidelines to improve AI-generated outputs in UI/UX work.

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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3952938) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Станислав Кириченко Posted on May 26 From Shell Scripts to MCP Servers: How SEO Broke My Brain (in a Good Way) #ai #claude #promptengineering #seo I've been doing technical SEO for 20 years. My first "automation" was a shell script that pinged Google every hour to check if my site got indexed. We've come a long way. For most of those two decades, automation meant one thing: Python. Scrapers, crawlers, log analyzers, bulk content pipelines.

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