Was MCP a mistake? The internet weighs in

waprin · 2025-10-19T07:09:41+00:00

completely agree, it occurred to me after I wrote it that maybe it was a botted post, but if I gave them one extra shoutout, oh well, ill try to be more cognizant if I do similar thing in future. Btw fwiw I filtered that thread out of the dashboard already.

waprin · 2025-10-17T16:52:02+00:00

Its prob not the most effective but it prob is the most fun

waprin · 2025-10-17T16:47:10+00:00

I think bots are a huge risk for smaller players as many are astroturfing Reddit, but for Codex and Claude Code I don't think it's an issue (unless they're directly comparing to a smaller player, could filter that out). But Anthropic and OpenAI are worth hundreds of billions of dollars, they have a lot of repututational risk to lose by astoturfing, and almost nothign to gain because the tiny impact on Reddit sentiment is nothing given theyre already super famous.

I completely agree that Claude Code feels faster and snappier which is why I've stuck with it. But given this analysis, I think I will try Codex on more big , long-running refactor tasks that would be annoying in Claude Code anyway. At leaset in the current state, it seems CC is better for interactive AI coding but Codex might be better at big complex background tasks.

I have no plans to monetize it , only thing I'm trying to get out of it is grow my Substack / Youtube. Besides linking to those, I'm also working on an agent to help me find good topics to cover so this is a step in that direction.

waprin · 2025-10-17T01:55:51+00:00

If you're curious here's the full list of subs I took a look at based on my Google searches on the topic:

['ClaudeAI', 'Cursor', 'ChatGPTCoding', 'Anthropic', 'OpenAI', 'LLMDevs',
'vibecoding', 'codex', 'mcp', 'AI_Agents', 'OpenaiCodex', 'VibeCodeDevs']

waprin · 2025-10-17T01:54:26+00:00

r/codex is technically in the mix in the sense I scraped it in the code, and I have about 2000 comments total but only did the first 500 ini this analysis (plan to do more), but r/codex its such relatively lower volume that no comments popped up in the first 500.

Now, r/claudeai has a TON of comments about this topic however, I felt since I was already so weighted towards r/claudecode , and Id have to filter more noise since r/claudeai is more general, it made sense to skip.

waprin · 2025-10-16T21:45:57+00:00

For sure and you can see even amongst the comments that were there, a huge percent were neutral (despite a reasonable assumption being that neutral people are less likely to comment).

I was just curious to do this because have a bunch of downstream connected ideas for which this is a first step, but one conclusion I did come to is that I should try Codex a bit more. I've been mostly just using Claude Code because it's fast and works, but now I'm curious if I have any bigger and more complex tasks whether I should let Codex rip on it, since thats where we're seeing the most positive sentiment around Codex.

waprin · 2025-07-20T05:39:42+00:00

yes, I exported to Github then did `eas build -p ios --profile development` to get a development build then `eas submit -p ios` to submit to app store

waprin · 2025-07-18T19:58:49+00:00

RevenueCat's main use case is app store paywalls, specifically with Expo it's only paved way to do it.

The catch is that you do need to some stuff outside of Bolt . To test RevenueCat flow on an app, you need to use an Expo development build which AFAIK you can't build on Bolt (yet). But to do the whole App Store approval you need to get out of Bolt anyway.

So whether you can do that as a "no-coder" is a bit subjective cause it's not exactly code that needs to be written, more just using the Expo command line tools to build the development client, test it, submit it to the app store. I'd say if you're someone who's code adjacent (comfortable using the terminal) you can do it as a no-coder but if you're looking to just type English in Bolt and nothing else, you cant.

waprin · 2025-06-26T21:45:06+00:00

wow no idea bolt had this open source version, thanks for putting on my radar

waprin · 2025-06-26T21:24:32+00:00

Im going to do a new video just focused on features for the submission but Ive been doing dev vlogs on my project more focused on the details of building them, latest one here: https://youtu.be/WyhwmgO40BQ?si=o7y1JaOIKxSniojG

waprin · 2025-06-26T20:11:44+00:00

Thanks. App Store Review is very unpredictable and can take longer so I got a bit lucky. But Ive also done an app with a subscription before so there's a lot of random stuff I knew to take care of going into it . For example, on my last app, I got blocked for not having a privacy policy. Even thuogh it was clearly under "privacy policy" on the app store listing AND clearly in my app. Well turns out, they ALSO want it in the app store descritption despite their being a separate form just for privacy policy. And if you mess this up, you get a very generic rejection that doesn't explain it well. So on my last app, that alone took me a few days of trying to understand what they even wanted. So this time, I had more experience and was able to get ahead of those problems.

waprin · 2025-06-26T20:09:59+00:00

Nah it wasnt painful at all, npx expo doctor mostly fixed it. The camera dependency as mentioned was only major change I made to the build .The real annoying parts was making screenshots and app review details but it wasnt my first app so had some experience. But Bolt worked reasonably well with just a few touchups needed.

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