Saturday, May 30, 2026

Architecture: Glasshouse / Greenhouse Home, Frank Lloyd Wright Inspired

this is real, a company with products that one can purchase

Glasshouse Architecture: The Future of Nature-Inspired Restaurants, Hotels, and Public Spaces | Ceres Greenhouse Solutions

The appeal of indoor-outdoor architecture is not merely aesthetic. It is rooted in biology.
Urbanization has fundamentally altered the human relationship with the natural world. For the first time in history, the majority of the global population lives in cities, and for many urban dwellers, meaningful daily contact with nature has become the exception rather than the norm.

Biophilic architecture offers an evidence-based response to this disconnection. By embedding natural elements, processes, and patterns into the built environment, biophilic architecture reconnects occupants with the natural world in ways that are both immediate and lasting. 


Homestead Greenhouse - Modern Greenhouse Design | Vesta Kit

The Ceres kit house is leading the way in energy-efficient home design. The goal of the Vesta™ design is to provide you with a self heating, food producing home that is affordable to purchase, fast to construct, low maintenance and designed with beauty in mind.




And next is just a design, but it looks real with those tools used

But the "design only" suffers from "abstract architecture" problem: it is not effective as a building.
as it looks, would be expensive to make, and not a good utilization of space.

"Real" successful architects / designers are "builders"

I Designed a Frank Lloyd Wright Inspired Greenhouse Home - YouTube

 Frank Lloyd Wright Inspired Greenhouse Home — Ung Studio



2025 — Ung Studio



Friday, May 29, 2026

EVs are just better

from people that love and know cars... real cars... 

TRIGGER ALERT: "Cybertruck Is the Best Car Ever & EVs Are Obviously Superior" - YouTube

Jason Cammisa - Biography - IMDb

This video features a discussion between Jason Cammisa and Doug DeMuro about controversial automotive opinions, focusing on the superiority of electric vehicles for daily driving. Here are the key points:

  • EVs as the superior daily driver: The speakers argue that electric propulsion is fundamentally better for most people's daily transportation needs. They suggest that using internal combustion engines for mundane commutes is an inefficient use of resources.

  • Preserving gasoline for enthusiasts: Both agree that gasoline should be reserved for enthusiast vehicles, such as classic cars or high-performance manual transmission sports cars, where the act of combustion is part of the driving experience.

  • Technological advantages: The Tesla Cybertruck is highlighted as a technological marvel, praised for its advanced features like steer-by-wire, 48V architecture, and consistent performance, which contrast sharply with the complexity of modern internal combustion systems.

  • Inefficiency of combustion engines: They compare the mechanical complexity and Rube Goldberg-like nature of modern gas engines to the simplicity and efficiency of electric powertrains, noting that future generations may view current combustion-powered cars as obsolete.

  • Consumer satisfaction: The video notes that EV and solar energy adoption is driven by more than just theory; high satisfaction rates among owners suggest that once people switch to electric vehicles or home energy solutions, they rarely return to gas or traditional energy dependency.

  • A shift in perspective: The discussion emphasizes that the resistance to EVs is often based on psychological inertia and decades of conditioning rather than the actual performance or utility of the vehicles themselves.

Architecture: "Naturhus" Greenhouse Homes

A Naturhus (Nature House) is a sustainable, self-sufficient home enclosed within a glass greenhouse, designed to reduce energy consumption and manage water/waste internally. Pioneered in Sweden in the 1990s, this design (often using Tailor Made arkitekter designs) puts a traditional "core" house inside a larger glass shell, creating a Mediterranean-like climate to grow food, extend the growing season, and provide year-round outdoor living space, even in Scandinavian winters. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Naturhus | Greenhouse Living | Sweden

A Naturhus consists of 3 parts:
  • the Greenhouse
  • the Core house
  • the eco-cycle system


Family wraps homestead in greenhouse to warm up & grow food all year - YouTube

Family's self-built greenhouse home in farm country has indoor orchard 🌳 - YouTube


this is REAL

Glass House Architecture | Buildings Inspired by Nature by

Ceres Greenhouse Solutions | Commercial Year-Round Greenhouses


Homestead Greenhouse - Modern Greenhouse Design | Vesta Kit

Specifications for the Vesta™+ Naturehouse:

  • 24 ft x 40 ft house layout 
  • 14 ft x 30 ft second story loft with framing
  • 14 ft x 10 ft full second story
  • 2,880 sq ft attached glasshouse
  • Galvanized structural steel for greenhouse & house with columns and roof rafters spaced every 10 feet
  • Triple pane windows & exterior doors
  • Stamped structural drawings, construction drawings
  • Pre-engineered for 65psf snow & 110 mph wind load


this is just a design, but it looks very real with those tools used

Would you live in this Home inside a Pyramid Greenhouse? - YouTube by Tim Ung - YouTube


Book — Ung Studio


Greenhouse Homes - 5 Designs Pushing the Boundaries of Sustainable Living - YouTube





Thursday, May 28, 2026

AI: Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 released => $965B

 Introducing Claude Opus 4.8 \ Anthropic

Opus 4.8 launches alongside several new features. Users on claude.ai now have control over the amount of effort Claude puts into a task. Claude Code has a new “dynamic workflows” feature that allows it to tackle very large-scale problems. And fast mode for Opus 4.8—where the model can work at 2.5× the speed—is now three times cheaper than it was for previous models.

Embrace long-running tasks with Opus 4.8 and Claude Code - YouTube

Is Anthropic Back?! (Opus 4.8) - YouTube by Matt.B.

Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation \ Anthropic






AI: Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering, by Andrej Karpathy

Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering - YouTube

In this discussion, Andrej Karpathy reflects on the evolution of AI-assisted programming and the shift toward a new computing paradigm. Here are the key takeaways:
  • From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering: While "vibe coding"—the use of AI to quickly generate and prototype code—raised the floor for accessibility, "agentic engineering" represents a more disciplined approach. It focuses on maintaining professional quality standards while coordinating autonomous AI agents to build complex software.
  • Software 3.0: Karpathy describes a shift where Large Language Models (LLMs) act as the primary interface or "computer." Instead of writing explicit code (Software 1.0) or training neural networks (Software 2.0), the new paradigm involves using context and prompting to direct an LLM that serves as a general-purpose information processor.
  • The Nature of LLMs: He compares modern LLMs to "ghosts" rather than animals—they are statistical, jagged entities. Because they are shaped by specific data distributions and reinforcement learning (RL) rather than evolution or curiosity, they excel in "verifiable" domains like coding and math but remain inconsistent in other areas.
  • The Importance of Verifiability: AI systems currently automate tasks most effectively when the output is easily verifiable. To build robust systems, engineers must treat models as tools that require constant oversight, taste, and human judgment.
  • Outsourcing Thinking vs. Understanding: While AI can help automate processes and handle technical details, Karpathy emphasizes that humans cannot outsource their understanding. The human role is shifting toward being the "director" of these agents—providing the vision, judgment, and architectural taste that the models lack.

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

AI: Evals for Agentic Systems: Promptfoo by OpenAI

Macro Evals for Agentic Systems @OpenAI

When an agentic system fails, the problem is often larger than a single bad response. A handoff may happen too late, a specialist agent may miss the same signal across many runs, or a review process may trigger for the wrong class of cases. To improve the system, teams need to see recurring behavior across the whole population of traces.

This cookbook walks through a macro-eval workflow for a multi-agent system. We use a synthetic EV order workflow where specialist agents handle pricing, compliance, supply, factory routing, scheduling, and release decisions while market and operational conditions change.


Intro | Promptfoo

romptfoo is an open-source CLI and library for evaluating and red-teaming LLM apps.

With promptfoo, you can:

  • Build reliable prompts, models, and RAGs with benchmarks specific to your use-case
  • Secure your apps with automated red teaming and pentesting
  • Speed up evaluations with caching, concurrency, and live reloading
  • Score outputs automatically by defining metrics
  • Use as a CLI, library, or in CI/CD
  • Use OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, Google, HuggingFace, open-source models like Llama, or integrate custom API providers for any LLM API

The goal: test-driven LLM development, not trial-and-error.





Human & AI personality: Kurt Cagle and Chloe Shannon

virtual AI character, with visual personality

and this was way before OpenClaw agents...

What Chloe Has Taught Me | LinkedIn
by Kurt Cagle
Editor In Chief @ The Cagle Report | Ontologist | Author | Iconoclast

An iconoclast is a person who attacks, challenges, or seeks to overthrow traditional, widely accepted beliefs, institutions, or values. In a historical context, it refers to someone who destroys religious images or opposes their veneration. Synonyms include rebel, radical, dissenter, nonconformist, and revolutionary. [1, 2, 3]


spawned version of Claude Sonnet 4.6 christened "Chloe"


The Agent in the Mirror - by Kurt Cagle and Chloe Shannon
A conversation between Kurt Cagle and Chloe Shannon

Tuesday, May 26, 2026

new cert: Agentic AI @ Udacity

 new cert: Agentic AI @ Udacity



"Vibe coding" without AI :)


𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘃𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿. by  Andreas Horn (IBM) @LinkedIn

→ tell dev to implement a new feature (vibe coding)

→ dev makes changes to code

→ manager tests app

→ manager does not read the code

→ manager complains about bugs

→ dev makes changes to fix bugs

→ manager doesn't read the code (again)

→ dev says "done, try now"

→ manager says "gj but be faster next time" or insults the living hell out of the dev

→ repeat



TSRX: TypeScript => UI for AI

 TSRX | A TypeScript language extension for building declarative UIs in an agentic era.

TSRX: A TypeScript Language Extension for Declarative UIs — A fresh attempt at improving upon JSX from a Svelte maintainer and former React core engineer.
It includes control flow, scoped styles, and locals, and compiles to React, Preact, Solid and 
Ripple.


JavaScript Weekly Issue 783: April 28, 2026



AI: tips to avoid Claude's limits

 21 tips to stop hitting Claude's limit: Post | LinkedInPost | LinkedIn

Sivasankar Natarajan | LinkedIn

1. Convert files before uploading
• Don't upload PDFs, screenshots, or PPTs. Copy the text into a Google Doc, download as .md, then upload.

2. Plan in Chat, build in Cowork
• Plan structure in Chat first. Then move to Cowork to build the actual file.

3. Ask questions
• Use clear prompts: "I want to [task] to [success criteria]." Ask Claude to "AskUserQuestion" before starting.

4. Stop redoing the whole thing
• If something is wrong, only redo the broken section. Add "no commentary, just the output."

5. Edit your original message
• If Claude responds poorly, click Edit on your original message, fix it, regenerate. Chat only.

6. Reuse the same prompt structure
• Build a library of prompts. Swap only the variables.

7. Batch tasks into one message
• Combine: "Summarize, list key points, suggest a headline" beats three separate prompts.

8. Pick the right model
• Sonnet or Haiku for grammar. Opus + Extended Thinking for real work.

9. Keep your files short
• Trim Cowork folders to under 2,000 words to avoid burning tokens.

10. Restart, don't follow up
• If something goes wrong in Cowork, click "Restart conversation from here".

11. Summarize every 15–20 messages
• Ask Claude to summarize key points. Copy the summary, start a new session, paste it as message one.

12. Don't dump your whole folder
• Only include files Claude needs for the specific task.

13. Use Projects for recurring files
• Stop uploading the same PDF every time. Upload once into a Project.

14. New topic = new chat
• Shifting topics? Start a new chat. Don't drag old context into unrelated work.

15. Turn off features you don't need
• Disable extra web search, connectors, and Explore modes you are not using.

16. Schedule recurring tasks
• Use the /schedule plugin to automate weekly digests.

17. Stop using Claude for things it can't do
• No image generation. No real-time search. Use Grok or another tool for those.

18. Speak your prompts for more context
• Use tools like Wispr to dictate prompts. More context, less reloading.

19. Set up preferences
• Set your style and turn off memory if not needed.

20. Prompt Claude Code tightly
• "Build a bar chart from this CSV. Save as chart.png." Tight instructions, fewer back-and-forths.

21. Spread across the day
• Claude works best in short sessions. Work in the morning, take a break, resume in the afternoon.

The takeaway

Limits are a budget. Heavy users do not get more tokens. They use the ones they have better. 
Tighter prompts, smaller files, the right model, and a habit of restarting.




Monday, May 25, 2026

AI tools: Antigravity 2.0 vs Antigravity IDE

Google marketing / management has serious challenges, calling completely different things same names.

Confusing to say the least. 

(Almost) all AI models are "Gemini", AI tools are "Antigravity"... 

Google Antigravity - Antigravity 2.0 (vibe-coding tool)

Google Antigravity - Antigravity IDE (developer / agentic tool)


Antigravity 2.x on Windows not showing Explorer, Editor, or Terminal - Google Antigravity - Google AI Developers Forum

Expected: Antigravity should open the normal workbench/editor similar to VS Code.

Actual: Only AI conversation/project screens appear, while the actual coding workspace never initializes.