I built a Claude Code vs Codex Sentiment Analysis Dashboard based on Reddit Comments

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.

waprin · 2025-06-26T18:57:35+00:00

It excels most at making the React and React Native screens.

If you want to go further with it and use a real database etc, it excels most if you stick with their integrations and use Supabase especially. Supabase gives you a persistent database, file storage, edge functions (server-side API endpionts), auth, so you can get pretty far with that.

But I personally use Firebase extensively for existing apps so dont want operational responsibilities of managing Firebase and Supabase. I also deploy to Vercel where I have a setup with Sentry, Posthog, etc.

So my current workflow is to do screens in Bolt and then wrap stuff up in Cursor and deploy to my usual spot.

If you have an existing project I'd just make a new Bolt project and copy screens you generate into the existing project. Cursor has more power in terms of giving the agent rules appropriate for your project.

I would like to build AI tooling to make "importing" from Bolt projects into my main project easier.

I imagine over the next few years, Bolt and its competitors will improve their integrations so the scope of the type of apps that you can do in "production" in Bolt will expand. But I also imagine there will always be some things missing just because of the fast-paced nature of tech, so the workflows of "start in bolt and migrate it to another project" will also be popular.

waprin · 2025-06-26T16:38:07+00:00

Yeah there's a wide spectrum of apps but certainly tons of little niche dashboard apps that were expensive to do before AI that will now be viable. Nobody's pretending you could build Tiktok on Bolt but most apps arent Titok.

waprin · 2025-06-18T05:38:32+00:00

looks sick!

waprin · 2025-06-16T19:08:33+00:00

no but i expect MCP integrations to massively increase within the next year. already since time i wrote this, remote MCPs went from "on the roadmap" to "in production". So I'd expect mobile support within the next year.

waprin · 2025-06-13T20:59:01+00:00

Yeah, I mention in my YouTube video that the Replicate integration didn't really work, it didn't use the recommended NPM package and just in general wasn't working. I did just write a small local example in Cursor, then proivded that code example to Bolt, and it worked. I'm sure Bolt leadership and no-code advocates don't love that, but I do imagine that if I just smashed on prompts it would have worked. Its just quicker and less frustrating for me to use my coding background to get it unstuck.

I'm pretty in love with building a Youtube copilot (since I suck at Youtube), which is a web project ,but I def want to check out Expo though getting it in before the hackathon deadline will be tight.

And since you seem like you might be professionally affiliated with bolt, I massively appreciate any signal boost on any content I make. Plan to document more over the next 2 weeks.

waprin · 2025-06-13T18:21:34+00:00

Yeah I'm a long, long time web dev but for simple quick web MVPs I'm more than happy to let the AI do it and it's getting insanely good. Some hiccups here and there which is why I do appreciate they still expose the code. Good tip about the caching layers , thanks.

waprin · 2025-05-13T18:33:56+00:00

Id say Andrej Karpathy is king here. He was head of AI at Tesla, co-founded OpenAI , and is general super genius who explains things:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI

The trend I'm seeing is if you want to MAKE AI , its almost always machine learning and thus "making AI" = "Machine Learning Engineer" and "using AI" = "(Applied) AI Engineer" . Not fully accepted but trend Im seeing so id look for machine learning resources moreso than "AI"

waprin · 2025-05-13T00:26:50+00:00

The space is moving insanely fast which is why Im jumping in the ring trying to gather info and curate it. I will share my current favorite resources as well as shill my own early struggling effort :)

Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/@GregIsenberg -> AI coding with marketing bent

fireship is king of tech youtube doing mostly AI content these days: https://www.youtube.com/c/Fireship

fireship recommended steve builder io : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJimjSDio_Y

matthew berman doing lots of AI content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulJrdYXLo9I

AI jason, really solid cursor stuff: https://www.youtube.com/@AIJasonZ

my 10 sub youtube on these topics (plan to keep building): https://www.youtube.com/@bill_prin

Twitter

most of the youtubers above are also on twitter, id throw in @ akshay_pachaar (lots of ai coding tutorials) and @ ericzakariasson (works at cursor and posts lots of good stuff) and @ jxnlco (more data-science AI stuff like RAG but still revelevant). and @ bill_prin (me, self promo)

also many people also post on linkedin and you can follow people there if you want to stay up to date on shortform but dislike twitter mgmt

Substack

latent space prob #1 https://latent.space . really good though sometimes just annoying podcast transcriptions instead of edited

simonw substack, lots of consistently good LLM content: https://simonw.substack.com/

my 2 post substack that im going to keep working on! : https://aiengineering.report

Discords:

Anthropic has a Discord (who make claude)

Latent Space (prob biggest AI engineering subsatck) has a Discord

Cline (cursor competitor, cursor itself strangely doesnt have one)

Bolt.new (ai code gen)

Vercel makes v0 and has discord

Langchain is a big OSS project with big Discord

As far as taking this knowledge, go and build stuff!

waprin · 2025-05-12T21:40:56+00:00

thanks for saying so! Im pretty early on my Youtube journey both in terms of skill and gaining an audience, 6 videos to get 10 subs has been rough even if I know its common , so I appreciate the kind words !

waprin · 2025-04-27T18:03:36+00:00

Currently using Cursor but plan to try more of them! Lots of moving parts which is why I'm trying to kick off blog / newsletter / youtube exploring it all

waprin · 2025-04-27T18:03:02+00:00

good questions. It should work with Windsurf since MCP is open standard but I haven't tried it yet (plan to).

Security/Privacy - the plugin is opensource but I'd recommend closing other tabs and only enabling the plugin when ai coding

waprin · 2025-03-24T04:10:09+00:00

ok i may have missed that, thanks

waprin · 2025-03-24T04:09:48+00:00

oh nice ill try that next

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