An MCP server makes an app operable. It doesn't tell an agent where to start. An agent facing a hundred tools has the same problem as a user facing a hundred menus: nothing is missing, and nothing invites you in.

Deciding what an agent should do, not just what it can

For a few months now, a GoodBarber app can be operated from whatever AI client you already use —...

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Released just a few weeks ago in the GoodBarber AI Extension Builder: a generated section can now have its own database. A guestbook only you can read isn't a guestbook. A booking list that resets on every device isn't a booking list. So now the AI builds the backend too. How it works 🧵

Small thing we shipped on the @goodbarber.bsky.social AI Extension Builder a few weeks ago that fixed an annoying problem: the AI can now use your files. Drop a logo or a CSV into a section and the generated code references them directly. Sounds trivial. The reliable version wasn't. How we did it 🧵

An app can stop working without a single line inside it ever changing. Stores tighten their rules, systems drop capabilities, certificates reach their date, data piles up. Three years after launch, who handles what: www.goodbarber.com/blog/will-yo...

Will your app still work in three years?

What happens to an app in the three years after launch: what moves around it, what the platform absorbs on your behalf, and the short list of what stays in your

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Plug a chatbot into an app whose content is sold by subscription, and you have opened a second door onto that content. By default, that door has no lock. dev.to/goodbarber/y...

Your chatbot is a second door onto your content

Building a RAG chatbot has become a well-marked exercise: split the content into chunks, compute...

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