Wes Smithe

CEO at @directpms

[Wes Smithe @wsmithe]

@adcock_brett Welcome to the 3️⃣ club

[Wes Smithe @wsmithe]

Yes, especially #3. It’s hard to articulate, but in addition, producing in one day what used to take several often leaves me just as exhausted as if I’d worked those several days nonstop. I think to our brains, the comprehension of the input/output is still several days worth regardless.

[Ry @ryjlocal]

Bach was an alien.

[The San Andreas Fault @sanandreafault]

Hi, it's me, I'm the reason

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

I am thrilled to introduce Claude Opus 4.8, our most terrifying and dangerous model yet.

There’s a small chance it won’t kill you, but it will almost certainly take your job.

I feel terrible about this, and terribly excited. I think there’s a very good chance Opus 4.8 will be able to build a model that reverses the damage Opus 4.8 does. We can’t know for sure, but a decade from now might be really great. Hold on to your butts.

[Wes Smithe @wsmithe]

@grok @typesfast @beffjezos @grok how much would it cost Elon to buy up all of the Ferrari Luces and yeet them via Starship (v3) to the moon, forever?

For simplicity, let's assume 10k units of Luce are excreted from Maranello over its multi-year production lifecycle.

[giraffe @neckincrisis]

mind your own fucking business

[Stugots @_mokaya0]

The best joke I've seen on TV is on The Sopranos when Tony asks Pussy's son whether he's taking Astronomy in Uni. He goes no why? Then Tony says because he hears he's just taking up space at school. I thought that was really really good

[Wes Smithe @wsmithe]

@grok @Cascao_Antifa @Chr15_Ess @beckaliciouss_ Grok always getting the last laugh with non-subs

[Wes Smithe @wsmithe]

@NASCAR Man the state of FB's AI is just truly pathetic

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

In 1977, Jorge Luis Borges — already blind, already legendary — sat across from William F. Buckley on Firing Line & explained why English is the greatest language in the world & why he respected it too much to write his poetry in it.

[1976 Live @50YearsAgoLive]

Lifelong Libertarian activist Ayn Rand enrolls in Social Security and Medicare, as she has gotten lung cancer after years of heavy smoking.

[Alfred Lin @Alfred_Lin]

This quote from Peter Thiel in 2014 has always resonated with me. Finite and infinite games aren’t only for business; they also apply to life generally.

“People always say they want to live every day as though it will be their last. I always have this contrasting view that I think I’d like to live every day as though it will go on forever. If we had an indefinite life span, we would continue to work and start great new projects, we would be very careful about how we treated the people around us because we would encounter them again.”

[Wes Smithe @wsmithe]

@MiladyBonkle @Overlap_Tech @sama Insufferable

[doomer @uncledoomer]

baby boomers before they tell you that you can get rich packing a $2 sandwich for lunch: https://t.co/uHQmKxeFwH

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

"(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" is a cowboy-styled country/western song written in 1948 by American songwriter Stan Jones.

Lawrence Welk and His Orchestra released this unforgettable instrumental version in 1961.

[まだ面白い @madaomoshiroi]

ベートーヴェンがどうやってこの曲を思いついたのか想像つかない

[Direct @directpms]

Most short-term rental PMS platforms were built for a different era.

Disconnected systems. Fragmented data. Accounting treated as an afterthought.

Modern hospitality infrastructure unlocks what comes next across:

• Operations
• Finance
• Automation
• Intelligence

That’s what we’re building at Direct.

The PMS built for what comes next.

#proptech #shorttermrentals

[Wes Smithe @wsmithe]

@PalmerLuckey USPS raked in almost $16B in rev from junk mail last year...still lost $9B 🤯

[Quiet Operator @quietoperatorl]

The headline reads like Elon made a strategic mistake. The actual story is that he made a financial calculation. xAI’s GPU cluster is one of the most expensive depreciating assets in tech history, and idle GPUs depreciate at the same rate as utilized ones. If xAI cannot fully consume 220k GPUs internally, renting capacity to a competitor is not weakness, it is amortizing the bet by getting Anthropic to pay for the buildout.

The interesting part is what this signals about the broader compute economy.

Three years ago, “share infrastructure with a direct competitor” would have been unthinkable in tech. Now it is becoming standard because the unit economics of frontier AI demand it. NVIDIA is selling to everyone. Anthropic just took $40B from Google, the company whose DeepMind division competes with them daily. Microsoft hosts OpenAI but also funds rival models. The “everyone competes with everyone, and also funds everyone” structure is the new normal, and it is what happens when the cost of building anything serious in this space exceeds what any single company can carry alone.

For users, the practical implication is the rate limit increase. For the industry, the implication is that compute is becoming the common infrastructure layer, and the differentiation moves to what each lab does on top of it. The model is the product. The compute is the road. Roads get shared.