AI coding guides & resources
Engineering decisions, tutorials, and video guides from the OTF team.
Ship a real SaaS without leaving your IDE using OTF's full prompt loop
Regeneration wipes your edits. OTF kits extend in place: prompt in your IDE, review the diff, ship.
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Vercel vs Netlify 2026: best deployment platform for different web projects
Vercel vs Netlify 2026: which deployment platform fits your stack, with verified docs and no stale pricing.
9 min read
Claude writing its own code revives the brake pedal safety debate
The brake-pedal debate over agents writing code, reframed as honest analysis with team-level controls.
5 min read
How to craft CLAUDE.md for coding agents that respect conventions
A complete CLAUDE.md and cursorrules file turns coding agents from guessers into extenders of your conventions.
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Why the 20+ task prompts in every OTF kit matter as much as the code itself
Every OTF kit ships a versioned library of task prompts and rules files. Why that prompt library matters as much as the code itself.
6 min read
Understanding Server-Side Rendering vs Client-Side Rendering for faster web experiences
SSR ships finished HTML for fast first paint and SEO; CSR builds in the browser for snappy app interactions after a slower start.
6 min read
Cursor's AI challenge reveals why strategic fit beats product fit
Why AI founders need strategic fit, not just product-market fit, with Cursor as the case study.
7 min read
Expo SDK 56 boosts cold start speed by 40% and impacts React Navigation
Expo SDK 56 brings faster starts, lower memory, and a navigation migration — what to trust, what to hedge, and the SDK 57 Hermes note.
7 min read
Shared Component Names, Different Web and Native APIs
Shared component names and design tokens help web and native teams coordinate; each package keeps its own APIs.
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Cursor Enterprise Organizations centralize budgets and team policy
Cursor Enterprise Organizations centralize AI budgets and policy — what is verified, what is reported, and how to govern scale.
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Designing a codebase AI agents can extend with tested components
Designing a codebase AI agents can extend: tested components, in-band agent configs, and conventions that beat cleverness.
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The real cost curve from vibe-coded MVP to production, honestly mapped
Vibe-coded MVPs look cheap until seats, rows and invocations compound — the cost curve and how owning code breaks it.
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Autonomous error remediation boosts AI coding agents with live context
Pair your AI coding agent with live runtime snapshots so Sentry alerts become evidence-backed pull requests instead of log-diving sessions.
7 min read
Real-time React Native with Laravel Reverb and react-native-reverb
react-native-reverb brings Echo-style real-time to React Native against a self-hosted Laravel Reverb server.
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The 24-item design bar every OTF kit must pass before shipping
OTF kits pass a script-enforced 24-point design checklist covering tokens, aria, dark mode, and keyboard.
6 min read
ReactoRadar: a modern React Native debugger for Hermes and new architecture
ReactoRadar brings Hermes-era React Native debugging to macOS: console, network, Redux, and storage in one app.
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Trillo AOS and Lovable compress enterprise builds from quarters to hours
Trillo AOS generates enterprise backends from specs while AI UI tools build the frontend; what to verify before production.
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Simplify bare React Native testing with Starship and QR codes
Starship CLI brings Expo Go-style QR wireless debugging to bare React Native apps with custom native modules. Setup, limits, and comparison.
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Cursor enhances Teams plan with predictable pricing and new Premium seat options
Cursor's June 2026 Teams update split first-party and third-party usage pools and added a 5x Premium seat. What changed, launch prices, and what to verify today.
5 min read
JetBrains open-sources Mellum2 to challenge third-party API limitations
What JetBrains Mellum2 actually offers for private routing, Q&A, and sub-agent workflows, plus a practical local integration plan.
7 min read
OpenAI Codex computer use on Windows 11 and desktop automation
Codex computer use on Windows 11 analyzed honestly — verified docs, illustrative examples, no shipped claims.
6 min read
How Papaya Global built a no-engineer production compliance agent with Claude
A production compliance agent needs retrieval, auditability, and scope guardrails — the reproducible Claude plus Postgres pattern, trimmed of unverified claims.
7 min read
Bun 1.3 launches a unified, batteries-included full-stack JavaScript runtime—here's how to use it now
Bun 1.3 unifies runtime, tooling, and database clients in one binary — setup, loop, and deploy guide.
5 min read
Claude Code Auto Mode: Convenience or Context Trap for Builders?
Claude Code's Auto Mode trades permission prompts for silent actions. Faster prototyping, riskier production code — and how to use both safely.
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