Pat Bergstresser

We're at the beginning of potentially the biggest S-curve in history. Husband. Father. Veteran. Product Builder. Building with @mikeymela.

[Pat Bergstresser @PatBergie]

I used Fable on Ultracode for a larger task for the first time,

Had it review a large build plan for a new feature.

- 37 sub agents
- 2.1M tokens
- Burned through my 5 hour window (I’m on the 5x max plan)
- $40 in extra usage credits

Lmao.

All that to review a build plan.

[Pat Bergstresser @PatBergie]

@petergyang Love it. Looking forward to a platemaxxing podcast episode in a few months Peter

[Pat Bergstresser @PatBergie]

I’m on baby duty, who is napping in my lap, so I’m glued to my chair.

So I used Hermes to read my repo, find the files I was looking for, pull my most recent meeting transcript, synthesize it all, and formulate a brief for my next engineering build.

What a time to be alive.

[Pat Bergstresser @PatBergie]

@thsottiaux @OpenAI my banked usage resets aren’t working.

I had 3 this morning, used one and nothing changed. Tried another, still no change.

Wondering if there’s an issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Pat Bergstresser @PatBergie]

@lennysan If a PM is going to venture to do their own analysis they should be held accountable to 1) back it up when it gets grilled and 2) fix it themselves when it’s wrong.

An accountability culture will ensure PMs are only attempting to do analysis they can handle.

[Pat Bergstresser @PatBergie]

In a previous role, Lenny was my PM mentor that didn’t exist in my own org. Thank you @lennysan.

A newsletter has to be pretty damn good to be better than real humans around you day to day.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Heart, full.

[Pat Bergstresser @PatBergie]

I love this app.

[Pat Bergstresser @PatBergie]

@petergyang @addyosmani Be careful.

[Pat Bergstresser @PatBergie]

@aakashgupta “This is not an officially supported Google product.”

[Pat Bergstresser @PatBergie]

@stuholden I can’t speak to whether this exists or not. But if you build it yourself you’ll want to use something like @Replit @boltdotnew @Lovable . With a few prompts you can get a prototype running that works perfectly for you. No code needed at all.

[Pat Bergstresser @PatBergie]

@_Logor @Replit Haha true but I figure I would have done all the same steps anyway. Just faster and more efficient now

[Pat Bergstresser @PatBergie]

.@Replit agent v3 is the real deal folks…wow

[Pat Bergstresser @PatBergie]

This is one of those skills that a lot of people in tech think they have.

But people who can do this effectively are incredibly rare unicorns.

[matt palmer @mattyp]

There is insane demand for people who can understand and explain technology in a compelling way.

[Pat Bergstresser @PatBergie]

@JoshuaImel @okayzade Thanks for flagging @JoshuaImel ! Now I don’t have to bounce back and forth with a different LLM. And the context available will be helpful!

[Pat Bergstresser @PatBergie]

@prajeenv Well said

[Pat Bergstresser @PatBergie]

"PMs need to work 60+ hours a week to be successful."

It's bullshit.

What isn't bullshit?

PMs need to *think* about their product 80+ hours a week.

When you do this, your 40-50 hour work weeks become much more optimized than everyone else who's slogging 60+ hours.

[Pat Bergstresser @PatBergie]

@ParvSondhi Haha very true

[Pat Bergstresser @PatBergie]

@BasedBigTech @aakashgupta This.

[Pat Bergstresser @PatBergie]

@carlvellotti IMO the EM should be running these frankly. If they aren’t, influence that change.

Worst case, PMs should be there to answer questions and ensure the user POV is maintained.