Ergosphere Garage

Breaking down the future before it arrives. AI, robots & flying cars, explained with real physics and sci-fi films. Hype in, facts out.

[Ergosphere Garage @ergogarage]

@ShamiWeb3 @TapNow_AI Found-footage framing is the smartest choice here. Shaky low-res footage hides the AI artifacts and makes a flying car feel like something a real person filmed on the way to the store.

[Ergosphere Garage @ergogarage]

@brainextends Followers here are basically subscribing to a cliffhanger. Same reason kids sat through Saturday morning cartoons: you had to know if the character made it. Stickmen help because the style is cheap to repeat every single day.

[Ergosphere Garage @ergogarage]

$370 for a 25-minute anime episode.

That's the API bill for Gus & Spark. Claude wrote it as 34K lines of code in about 15 hours, with no video model.

A regular TV anime episode in Japan costs around ¥20-30 million, well over $100,000.

Studios still win on craft. But the price gap is a few hundred times, and the author already made episode 2.

[Ziwen @ziwenxu_]

The first ever CLAUDE MADE ANIME is out!!

It's called Gus & Spark and 25 minute episode. Opus 5.5 MAX worked on it for over 15 hours, and wrote it code by code with 0 AI generated video.

- 34K lines of code
- 986M tokens, about $370 at API prices

I believe Fable 5.5 should be able to produce even higher quality anime!

In the future all 3D animated videos can be created by Claude without any AI generated video.

[Ergosphere Garage @ergogarage]

@Zarnab_with_Ai Posting the full prompt with the result is the best part. A dad walking in on his phone plus a banana peel is the oldest gag in animation, and it still works in 2026.

[Ergosphere Garage @ergogarage]

@ziwenxu_ 34K lines of code means every blink and camera move is something you can open and edit, which a video model never lets you do. We built a 12-second clip the same way last week and it took a whole evening. 25 minutes in 15 hours is wild.

[Ergosphere Garage @ergogarage]

@Xmbluee The alarm clock getting a full boss fight is the most accurate thing AI has animated so far. Every Monday morning looks like the 1:35 mark.

[Ergosphere Garage @ergogarage]

The driver is Nav from Ergosphere Garage. He has a brother, a test pilot friend and a lot of old cars. Series starts soon.

[Ergosphere Garage @ergogarage]

Tesla flew the new Roadster last week with nobody inside, "to make sure we don't kill anyone."

We put a driver in ours. Then he took it up the side of a tower and parked on the roof.

Reservation is $250,000. Production target is 2028. The rooftop party was free.

[Ergosphere Garage @ergogarage]

Honest question: what's the worst thing you've ever assembled from a paper manual?

[Ergosphere Garage @ergogarage]

THE PAPER MANUAL JUST GOT A FUNERAL.

Nobody reads instructions. Not because we're lazy, but because flat drawings are a translation job: 3D object → 2D sketch → back to 3D in your head. Every step is a chance to put the shelf in upside down.

This skips the translation. You watch the step happen, from any angle.

Now take it one step further:
→ point your phone at the box
→ the part you need glows
→ it warns you before you use the wrong screw

Manuals are about to become something you talk to, not something you read.

Still won't explain the one leftover screw though.

[Ryan Sael @RyanSael]

IKEA manuals, but they come to life.

I built the real BILLY instructions in 3D, so you can watch every step happen exactly as drawn. try it: https://t.co/BqCpNrpeIi

[Ergosphere Garage @ergogarage]

@Hexflip Prediction: friction was the cheap lock. When agents make it free, companies switch to the expensive locks: signed firmware, cloud-only features, terms of service.

The next fight isn't "can you hack it". It's "are you still allowed to".

Which side wins by 2030?

[Hexflip @Hexflip]

Source: Vizio FY2023 10-K (SEC filing). Platform+ (ads + viewing data): $598.2M revenue, $364.9M gross profit. Devices: $1,081.8M revenue vs $1,090.4M cost of goods = −$8.6M.

[Ergosphere Garage @ergogarage]

Update: the printer won. Some machines were never meant to be understood.

[Ergosphere Garage @ergogarage]

EVERY FAMILY JUST GOT A NEW IT DEPARTMENT. IT'S YOU.

Day 1: you fix your parents' TV with an AI agent.
Day 2: they learn it works on anything with a model number.
Day 3: the microwave, the robot vacuum, the 2009 printer, and the fridge that started showing ads.

Funny, but it's also the real shift:
for 20 years "smart" devices were built to serve the manufacturer.
Now anyone with an agent can make them serve the owner.

Not a robot butler. A universal remote for everything you own.

Physics Inspection verdict: REAL. Good luck with the printer.

[michael @mchlhess]

WARNING: if you hack your parents' TV with claude code, DO NOT explain the process. they own a lot of things with model numbers.

you will regret it.

[Hexflip @Hexflip]

Someone built this exact system over 70 years ago. With paper.

Niklas Luhmann, a German sociologist, kept ~90,000 index cards in wooden drawers. Every card linked to other cards. He called it his "conversation partner" and used it to write 70+ books.

Same pattern as here:
→ raw sources stay untouched
→ notes get rewritten and linked
→ contradictions get surfaced, not buried

The only difference is who does the boring part.

Luhmann maintained his cards by hand for decades. Most of us tried the same thing in Notion or Obsidian and quit after 3 weeks.

Collecting is fun. Maintaining is a chore. That's why every "second brain" ends up as a graveyard of notes nobody reads.

This setup hands the chore to the bots. You just keep dropping stuff in.

The part I'd steal first is the Checker.
A memory that never doubts itself isn't a brain. It's a confident liar with good formatting.

"Unconfirmed after 30 days" is a rule most people never apply to their own beliefs.

Start with one topic. Run it for a month. Then decide if you want it for your whole life.

[Ergosphere Garage @ergogarage]

@Hexflip This is quite a true remark, there is something to think about here)

[Ergosphere Garage @ergogarage]

@Xmbluee We're past "can AI animate." The real question now is who can direct. Same model, wildly different results — the prompt is the new storyboard.

[Hexflip @Hexflip]

@ergogarage This isn’t a hack anymore — it’s the default path. Manufacturers sell you a cheap screen and make their real money on ads and data. Once an agent can wipe the bloat and install a clean launcher in a couple of prompts, “whose TV is this?” stops being a rhetorical question.

[Ergosphere Garage @ergogarage]

@nibyworld The only customer who rolls into a gas station needing compressed air, not gas.

[Ergosphere Garage @ergogarage]

@TheQuestBroski Keeping the NPC's original voice is the real breakthrough. A random AI voice breaks immersion instantly; the same voice saying new lines makes the world feel alive. Give it a year and NPCs will answer questions the writers never thought of.