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GoodBarber

No-code platform headquartered in Ajaccio, Corsica, selling tools to build and publish mobile apps and progressive web apps without programming.

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GoodBarber serves on-device iOS web content from a fixed https origin through iOS 17's proxy API

GoodBarber now serves on-device web content in its iOS apps from https://secure.internal, through a WKWebsiteDataStore proxy API added in iOS 17. A fixed name gives the company's token issuer one origin to allowlist, where the old loopback server needed a wildcard that matched any port on the phone.

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Reality

Evidence55
Adoption20
Hype gap0
Incentives30
Confidence55
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Shopify's Helix feeds its native rewrite to agents one screen at a time

Six engineers shipped a fully native Shop app in 12 weeks, but the first attempt at handing the React Native code to a model produced what Shopify's engineering director called slop. Helix chunks each screen instead.

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Perspective Coverage

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Operator 33%
Investor
Investor 11%

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption55
Hype gap+20
Incentives50
Confidence68
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A key in a test widget moved GoodBarber's secrecy decision into deterministic code

On July 22 a model wrote a forty-character API key into a page's JavaScript and declared the API not secret. GoodBarber now has the model state only how a key is sent and lets code default every key to secret.

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Reality

Evidence57
Adoption20
Hype gap+10
Incentives55
Confidence52
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A cached empty list made a read-back commit rule ask for 70 paragraphs

The engineering lead at app platform GoodBarber traced 70 duplicate paragraphs to a read path serving a 742-byte empty list out of a 60-second cache. His debugging order now puts the prompt last.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption20
Hype gap−12
Incentives35
Confidence47
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A 90-day date window trims each hreflang decision from 1,083 candidates to twenty

GoodBarber's engineering lead reconciled 5,892 posts across seven language blogs with gemma2:27b on one MacBook. What makes it work is the retrieval layer that cuts every decision down to twenty summaries.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption22
Hype gap+15
Incentives65
Confidence52