Topic guides
Deep, evergreen guides that pull together everything we've written on the walls builders hit with AI coding tools — and how to ship past them.
- Shipping with Your Agent: The Stay-in-IDE Workflow for Production Apps (CLAUDE.md, .cursorrules, Design-System Context)
The workflow is the product — a CLAUDE.md, a .cursorrules file, a design-token manifest, and a prompt library are the difference between an agent that regenerates and one that ships.
- Honest AI Coding Tool Comparisons: Lovable vs Bolt vs Cursor vs Claude Code vs Rork — What Each One Can and Can't Do
The right question isn't which AI coding tool is best — it's which one can follow you from a working prototype all the way to production.
- The AI Tool Cost Trap: What Token Pricing, Credit Pools, and Usage-Based Billing Are Actually Costing You
The surprise bill isn't a billing bug. It's the predictable output of an agentic loop running over code your tool can't reuse.
- One Component, Web and Mobile: Cross-Platform UI That Your Agent Can Read, Extend, and Ship
The hard part of building for web and mobile at once was never the styling — it's shipping a component your agent can read, extend, and keep in sync across both platforms.
- A Free, Open-Source UI SDK That Works the Same on Web and React Native
There is a free, MIT-licensed UI SDK where the same component names and design tokens work on the web and on React Native; props differ per platform. This is what it includes and where it fits.
- Sandboxed vs Filesystem Agents: Why Lovable, Bolt, and Rork Can't Follow You to Production — And What Can
A sandbox isn't a security feature — it's a deployment constraint, and it's the architectural reason your Lovable, Bolt, or Rork project stops following you the moment real production begins.
- What's Already Wired in a Production App Starter: Auth, Billing, Database, and Deploy
A production starter is defined by the boring parts it has already wired — auth, billing, a real database, and a deploy pipeline — not by the screens it shows you on day one.