AI coding guides & resources
Engineering decisions, tutorials, and video guides from the OTF team.
Why Builders Are Leaving MUI and the Honest Alternatives
Choosing a MUI alternative depends on the real constraint: visual ownership, component coverage, bundle budget, or web and mobile delivery.
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Master Cursor: From Install to Shipping Your First Feature
A practical Cursor beginner guide: open a real codebase, add project rules, choose the right agent interaction, and ship one reviewable feature.
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Beyond Pretty Charts: The Essential Features of a Real Financial Dashboard
What to check in a financial dashboard template before production: pagination, URL-backed filters, state handling, exports, permissions, retries, and auditability.
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enable New Possibilities: Building with the Claude Agent SDK
What the Claude Agent SDK provides for production agents: filesystem tools, hooks, permissions, MCP, sessions, and a safer repository workflow.
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Background jobs for AI features: queues, retries, and idempotency
A practical design for long-running AI work: return a job ID, retry safely, checkpoint each step, and protect every external side effect.
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Unify web and mobile UI with OTF for smooth AI agent development
Shared OTF component names and tokens help teams build for web and native, with distinct props per platform.
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Ensuring consistency in AI-generated codebases with shared UI contracts
AI-generated codebases drift in three predictable ways. A shared component library plus agent configs pins conventions past month three.
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5 Proven Cursor Prompt Patterns for Shipping Real Features in Existing Codebases
Learn the 5 prompt patterns that reliably add features to existing codebases, with real examples from OTF's AI kits.
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Shadcn/ui alternatives: when to switch and what to pick instead
A straightforward comparison of shadcn/ui and its alternatives, helping you choose the right tool for your project needs.
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Cursor AI's Git Hook RCE Flaw: Patch Now to Secure Your Workflow
Learn how Git hooks can execute code silently through rigged repositories, and the checklist that secures AI-assisted Git workflows.
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Atlassian Code Context: AI Agents Gain Full Codebase Visibility
The agent context ceiling is organizational, not model-sized — why codebase visibility plus tickets and docs changes what agents can build.
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Transform Docker security and efficiency with GitHub Copilot agent mode
A four-phase Docker hardening walkthrough — Alpine multi-stage, distroless, Docker Scout verify — with an agent collapsing the diagnose-fix loop.
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Claude Code 2.1.224: change AI collaboration with cross-session messaging
Claude Code 2.1.224 adds ListAgents and SendMessage for local cross-session messaging.
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Mastering autonomous coding sessions with Claude Code's checkpoint system
Claude Code's checkpoint system auto-tracks edits per prompt with a rewind menu for code and conversation recovery.
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AI Coding Tools Shift: Copilot Drops, Codex Soars, Claude Code Shines
AI coding tool loyalty now tracks usage headroom first, workflow fit second, and model quality third. How to pick.
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Spline V2 change 3D Design with AI Agent Integration
Spline's desktop app connects Claude, Cursor, and VS Code to the live 3D editor via MCP, plus a built-in AI agent.
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GitHub Copilot Transforms Microsoft Teams into a Coding Powerhouse
AI-powered coding assistant now integrates with Teams, enabling developers to write and deploy code without leaving conversations.
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Spline V2 lets Coding Agents as Real-Time 3D Design Collaborators
Spline's rebuilt 3D editor lets Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex edit live scenes through its new MCP Server, transforming coding agents into dynamic design colla
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Slack Code changes AI-powered team coding collaboration
Slack Code reportedly brings AI coding agents into shared Slack channels; what was reported and why the pattern matters.
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AI-powered crypto phishing: Operation ASTERIX reveals new threat precision
Operation ASTERIX shows AI turned crypto phishing from spray to precision: reported 13.6% validated hit rate.
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AI-generated code vulnerability exploited by autonomous agent in Snowflake
Reported Snowflake Actions incident shows AI-authored sanitization regressions need automated gates, not just review.
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Cursor IDE vulnerability reported: secure your development environment
A reported Windows binary-planting flaw (CVE-2026-63093) can execute code on repo open. Inspection, isolation, and monitoring steps.
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AI Agent Uncovers GitHub Copilot-Induced Snowflake Repo Vulnerability
A reported Wiz Red Agent finding in a Snowflake repo shows why AI-authored workflow changes need exploit-testing gates.
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Secure Your AI Agents with a 7-Step Semantic Firewall Blueprint
Inspired by Clam (YC W2026): a 7-step blueprint for a network-layer semantic firewall that scans agent traffic.
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