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It was great to meet @RandBusiness and everyone at the SMB meetup. Grateful Rand let us make his shirts! Love the SMB community here on X.
I want to shout out someone I met on the Rand Run.
This is @SMB_Merch or Tyler
He helped me with a rush order of T shirts and a hoodie which is what everyone saw me wearing during my road trip
Tyler acquired his business and I’m routing for him!!
Disagree
The music is playing
And accelerating
My predictions over the following months:
1. Stock market will get hurt bad when the music stops on data centers, models, and chips.
Too much froth, too high of investment, too many companies will fail. The switching costs are low. I don't know how these companies will become profitable. Its a mega bubble.
The rest of the economy is already in a deep recession. Real pain will set in when the public markets dive.
2. Power is the bottleneck.
AI is burning an absurd amount of power. The cost of electricity is skyrocketing which is making the cost of everyday life more expensive and hurting quality of life. I'm against data centers because of the power, not the water.
The grid is extremely fragile and the weakness will be exposed in the coming months.
3. Subsidies are skewing the market.
AI isn't cheap. The prices to use it are artificially low because of subsidies all the way up the chain.
You pay $20 or $200 a month but the true costs are 10x That spread is venture capital money being incinerated at scale.
When they raise the price, the users will disappear and investors will hold the bag.
3. A big security breach is coming.
A bank, a certain model, something is going to rock our world.
People are letting bots log in to their banks, their email and everything else. Big trouble coming.
4. Grokbot is exceptional.
Its the first model that is adding significant value to my everyday life. I don't know why anybody would use a different personal assistant.
5. AI is insanely high maintenance
Billions are being poured into training the next model. They day it comes out its already behind. China has cheaper electricity and more chips.
The chips they bought will be obsolete in 18 months.
Companies are stuck paying big money every month to maintain and update all of their AI tools. Its a mess.
6. The power companies will renege on their deals.
Political pressure will unwind all the unsustainable power deals these data centers and LLMs have negotiated.
Power costs will explode. Then comes the choice:
Do we jack up costs for our AI / compute and watch everybody switch to the next model or do we incinerate more VC capital? Nobody wins.
7. Credit will be the first domino to fall.
Data centers are already struggling to finance the GPUs over 10 years when they will be obsolete in 18 months. We'll end up with a shit load of half built data centers who can't negotiate power rates or buy chips because nobody will let them borrow money.
The money will get cold feet as soon as the markets tank and the show will be over.
8. It'll be a dark, dark period in economic markets.
The people who own assets that make real money (real estate or businesses) will win.
The people who plan ahead and avoid massive leverage will win.
The people with cash on their balance sheet will accumulate more assets and generate exceptional wealth.
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Don't listen to me. I'm just a bear. Not investment advice. Good luck!
Insane what you can do with this!
Grok @bot might be the most important AI release of 2026. I'm just blown away by what it can do now.
A few days ago it felt like a niche toy and I didn't use it much... but now?! It's running parts of my workflow!
What has changed:
- It now uses Opus 5.5 when needed.
- It's MUCH faster.
- Bots have full access to X!
Bravo @spacexai @poteto @elonmusk 👏
Got this for the kids last year and they love it!
The Tin Can maybe be the best gift I’ve ever given my children.
They’re little WiFi telephones. Kids get their own phone number, but I control all access through the app.
My little boys can call me, mommy, grandparents, each other, and 911. That’s it.
(And those are the only numbers that can call them. Totally safe.)
$8/mo per line. Easy peasy.
Love it for a few reasons:
• Random phone calls from your little ones at work is life giving
• They can stay in touch with their grandparents, and surprise them with calls
• They have a way to call 911. Like most houses, we’re cell phone only these days. Having this method for them to contact grandparents or 911 for an emergency is a comfort.
No affiliation to them. Just love the product and wanted to share.
Customer spotlight- Laundry Spot @AlexForbesOps should have told me the shirts we did were entering a merch showdown!
Customer spotlight: Burnham Orchards 🍂
We made their 2026 Fall Festival tees and Farm Market hoodies — always great working with local businesses. Fall is their season, so get out to Berlin Heights and show them some love.
Need custom gear for your crew? DM Cal Sales for a free mockup — embroidery and screen printing, right here in Lorain County.
Tyler | Merch retweeted
Putting together a Cleveland business owner dinner
August 20th, 6:30 pm
If you’re in the area, DM me for details
@Glavin_ID
@BGPaul
@KurtisCarman
@AlexForbesOps
@ADbriggs66
@WilsonCompanies
@SMB_Merch
@SutterlinDan
@larkinep216
Feel free to tag others who should come!
Tyler | Merch retweeted
SMB Cruise…. Would anyone be interested?
-4 Day out of Miami or Ft. Lauderdale.
- you can convince your wife it’s a family vacation and still write it off (not tax advice)
- host a few workshops
- Get wildly sunburnt?
Running a promo for SMB X! 144+ Richardson 112 hats with your company logo for just $14.99 each. Free shipping nationwide!
Can confirm this hits. @McFranchisee is an influencer
1/ The part of this story that I left out is that it was my restaurant. We’ve been in training for over a month on these new drinks.
Today is soft launch, all @McDonalds can now officially sell these new drinks, a concept that I have been trying to get into McD since about 2014.
































