AI coding guides & resources
Engineering decisions, tutorials, and video guides from the OTF team.
China-Linked Hackers Exploit AI Tools in Government Cyberattacks
A threat-intel report just put Claude Code in the malware toolbox Cato CTRL published a report in May documenting a malware family called TencShell and tied it to a suspected China-based threat actor.
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AI Unveils 15-Year-Old Linux Kernel Root Vulnerability
Fifteen years hidden, then an AI found it Nebula Security's AI platform VEGA just surfaced GhostLock — a use-after-free in the Linux kernel's futex implementation that's been sitting in the source tre
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Codex Transforms Coding with smooth ChatGPT Integration
Code lives in your editor. Your UI ships to three platforms. OpenAI just folded Codex into ChatGPT. The number worth sitting with is six million — weekly active developers on Codex before the integrat
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Introducing Vise: Trustworthy AI-Powered SDK Integration Workflows
Vise turns AI SDK guesswork into a contract a reviewer can trust A coding agent can scaffold a social feed in five minutes. It can also write code that compiles cleanly and crashes the moment it touch
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Escape Sandbox Lock-In: Own Your AI-Powered Workflow with File-System Agents
The sandbox won the demo Lovable got me from a blank prompt to a deployed, auth-walled SaaS dashboard with a working Stripe checkout in twenty minutes. The signup form posted. The webhook fired. The P
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Unify Web and Mobile Development with OTF's Cross-Platform Components
I've shipped three Buttons to production. The web one lives in your JS bundle. The iOS one is a SwiftUI view. The Android one is a Compose composable. They all say "Primary". None of them look the sam
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AI Coding Agents Boost Merged Pull Requests by 24% at Microsoft
A 24 percent jump in merged PRs, held for four months, is the number to plan around. Microsoft just published the first production-scale measurement of command-line AI coding agents, and the result is
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Cursor 3.0 Outshines VS Code in the Most Crucial Aspect Today
The single change in Cursor 3.0: the editor stopped pretending to be a text editor with AI bolted on, and started acting like a control surface for AI work. That's a real design move, worth appraising
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Mastering AI Efficiency: Orchestrating 100+ Claude Code Agents in Headless Mode
100+ coding agents, one orchestrator, zero babysitting — that is what Claude Code's headless mode enables. The pattern is genuinely well-suited to how modern software wants to be built: define the wor
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AI in Software Development: From Pilots to Production
At WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026, 15,000 developers and tech leaders packed CityCube Berlin to swap one question for another. Last year the room asked "can AI ship software?" This year it asked
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enabling AI's Full Potential: Bridging the Gap from Sandbox to Production
Two agents, same ceiling Lovable will ship you a working prototype in a coffee break. Cursor can refactor a 200-file real codebase in an afternoon.
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ChatGPT Work and Codex Usage Limits Lifted by OpenAI
Three things happened in one afternoon from OpenAI, and they compound. The 5-hour usage cap on ChatGPT Work and Codex is gone — temporarily — for Plus, Business, and Pro plans. Your usage counter rese
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Why Code Review is More Crucial Than Ever in the AI Era
The hardest part of your sprint is no longer writing the code. It's reading it. That inversion is the most underrated story in AI-assisted development. The tools that promise 10× output deliver it — a
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Claude Code's Hidden Token Tax: 4.7x More Before You Start
The Systima analysis from July 2026 pinned both Claude Code and OpenCode to the same model — Claude Sonnet 4.5 — and ran identical tasks on identical hardware. Before either tool reads a single word o
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Meta's AI Chip Production & Cursor's $50B Valuation: Top Tech News
Custom AI silicon is one of the most expensive bets a tech company can make. Meta is taking that bet with Iris, a chip it plans to put into production this September. The stated goal is direct: power
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Cursor Sand: The New AI Agent Set to change Office Automation
The three-way race for the office agent just got its third runner, and the most interesting one might not be the two already shipping. Cursor — the AI code editor used across two-thirds of the Fortune
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Achieve True Cross-Platform Consistency with OTF's Unified Component System
Cross-platform consistency comes from shared component names and design tokens, with web and React Native keeping their own props and behaviors.
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Why 'Write Once, Run Everywhere' Often Falls Short in Practice
The promise of "write once, run everywhere" has been a lie for thirty years. The desire behind it is real — nobody wants three codebases drifting — but the actual delivery has been: write once, debug
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SpaceX Buys Cursor for $60B to Build the World's Most Useful AI Models
$60 billion for an editor. Read that again. Yes, SpaceX just paid sixty billion dollars for Cursor. All stock. Largest software acquisition ever recorded. Take a second on that sentence, because the n
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Claude Code's Auto Mode Now Default on Major Cloud Platforms
Anthropic shipped Claude Code 2.1.207 on Friday, and the one-line changelog entry hides a more interesting story than the headline suggests. Auto mode is now on by default on Amazon Bedrock, Google Ve
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Bezier AI Launches Conversational Website Builder for Rapid Prototyping
Bezier turns one prompt into a working site. That's the headline, and it earns a real look. For years "AI for web" meant autocomplete inside an editor — Copilot filling the next line, Cursor refactori
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Unify Your UI/UX Across Platforms with OTF's Component System
Shared component names and tokens help web/native teams coordinate; props and behavior remain platform-specific.
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Why File-System AI Agents Are the Key to Bridging the Gap to Production
File-system agents are the actual enable — and the gap to prod is closing Cursor and Claude Code are the first coding agents that feel like they live in your repo, not in a sandbox you can't reach int
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Cursor's Ambitious Leap into AI Agents Challenges Anthropic's Claude Cowork
A single prompt. Fifteen files rewritten. Tests run, bugs surfaced, a clean commit message waiting in the wings. That is Claude Cowork in action — Anthropic's reasoning-model extension that behaves le
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