Nick Smith

CEO & co-founder of @CloudMakerAI and @IndstryAI, former CTO and successful exit from @Cloud_Experts. Striving to unlock human potential.

[Nick Smith @NickSmithAI]

When you ask @OpenAI gpt-5-codex to plan the next move and you wonder if you just initiated Judgement Day.

[Nick Smith @NickSmithAI]

@vettukal @alexdoda @aidan_mclau So now I end up using o3 in chatGPT for planning and working through complex problems and feed Sonnet/Opus in Cursor output from o3. Then get them to review each other's work. I find o3 is better at complex backend tasks and Sonnet 4 especially just smashes through frontend.

[Nick Smith @NickSmithAI]

@vettukal @alexdoda @aidan_mclau I find o3 can be really amazing outside of Cursor/Windsurf. The implementation of o3 and its tool calling capabilities is really far behind Sonnet/Opus in those platforms. If I take my code and feed it to o3 in ChatGPT it instantly gets what needs to be done.

[Nick Smith @NickSmithAI]

@theo Any advice on getting coding agents to work nicely with tailwind and shadcn? I find it such a struggle debugging some minor css/component issue sometimes!

[Nick Smith @NickSmithAI]

@doctorwise @modestolopez20 @signulll DeepSeek opens the door to smaller less well funded research teams. Increased number of research teams will require more and more NVIDIA chips for the foreseeable. It's not about running the trained model, but the arms race to advance the models capabilities exponentially.

[Nick Smith @NickSmithAI]

I've been exploring ways of interacting with AI agents. Text and increasingly speech are already widespread. But realtime AI video APIs are unlocking the next domain.

Here's a proof-of-concept Teams call with our AI FinOps agent.

Would you take a video call with an AI agent?

[Nick Smith @NickSmithAI]

@aaditsh The emergence of AI Agents combined with LLMs is almost like the evolution of the neocortex for the human brain. Incredibly exciting!

[Nick Smith @NickSmithAI]

@BowTiedCyber Exactly, it will always be cheaper to just buy a Raspberry Pi and a 1TB SSD off Amazon. The additional cost is where the thing is hosted. What would your local DC quote you for a colo rack in a single site?

I get your point , but you're comparing raspberries with Cybertrucks.

[Nick Smith @NickSmithAI]

@BowTiedCyber Just looking at DO, what's the price of their 1TB volume per month? Also which SKU did you spec on Azure for your VM?

Just a cursory look shows an Azure B1s VM + 1TB SSD + Network is cheaper than Digital Ocean.

Would need to understand your chosen SKUs and modelling though.

[Nick Smith @NickSmithAI]

@vitorbal The whole thing is a big cron...

[Nick Smith @NickSmithAI]

How much do you think organizations can typically trim in percentage terms from their annual cloud spend by:

🟢 Right-sizing their infrastructure
🟣 Identifying and removing underutilized or completely unused resources
🟠 Switching to updated SKUs

Let me know your guess!

[Nick Smith @NickSmithAI]

@ilanbigio @OpenAI Really love it. Incredibly powerful, even if just to scare the kids with a ghost story.

[Nick Smith @NickSmithAI]

@AzureMktPlace @CloudMakerAI Really enjoyed speaking to Jason and being able to tell our story. Thanks for having me on!

[Nick Smith @NickSmithAI]

Proud of the whole EXG team. Great result and super exciting future ahead!

[Iomart @iomart]

It's a happy Monday at iomart as we confirm our acquisition of Extrinsica Global. We're really pleased to have such a fantastic brand join our growing business. Read the full press release ➡ https://t.co/YzkVxT9j92

#cloudcomputing #acquisition #hybridcloud
@Cloud_Experts

[Nick Smith @NickSmithAI]

Happy New Year. We wanted to kick the year off with a bang. We're super excited to announce our new Terraform export feature in @CloudMakerAI

Head over to https://t.co/hDyemfYMMP to sign up for the waitlist.

#Azure #Terrform #DevOps

[Nick Smith @NickSmithAI]

It's live 🚀 Episode 3 of Coffee☕️ & Cloud☁️. This week I have ex-Microsoft Senior Director, Paul Schuman on to talk about the importance of partners when thinking about cloud innovation.

🎤 Spotify: https://t.co/FwIv5nKoAO
📹 YouTube: https://t.co/GhAnNrhJUY

#cloud #partners

[Nick Smith @NickSmithAI]

Are you delivering Azure Virtual Desktop solutions? Want to speed up Time-to-Value, increase Return on Investment? Then this Cloud Maker update is for you! #azure #avd #cloudarchitecture

[Cloud Maker @CloudMakerAI]

Manually registering #Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts? Wrestling with #IaC to scale your deployments? Well struggle no more - with our latest release simply draw your #avd solution, press deploy, and let us handle the rest!
https://t.co/bGHNh520pT
#nocode #cloudarchitecture

[South Coast Summit @M365Summit]

Announcing @CloudMakerAI as a #SouthCoastSummit2021 sponsor.

@CloudMakerAI - Visual Deployment for Microsoft Azure. A hyper-scale cloud enablement company. Their mission is to democratise the power of the cloud through intelligent software automation.

https://t.co/6SpFPCTVjH

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Check out the latest Cloud Maker release – it’s jam-packed with improvements for our Azure Pipelines integration!

https://t.co/gtYbyEAHRH

#Azure #Pipelines #CICD #CloudArchitecture