🦄 Johannes Thor

I explain what product managers do and how you can become one. Been building products for 13+ years. Views are my own.

[🦄 Johannes Thor @Agustarson]

Is it just me or is product management chaotic as f**k?

[🦄 Johannes Thor @Agustarson]

@yourgirlhils Most people would benefit from using tools like Claude code or codex directly. But they won't. If they start getting more out of AI with the likes of Cowork they might end up all in. Or not.

What is your tool/toolset of choice?

[Stitch by Google @stitchbygoogle]

Today, we’re open-sourcing the draft specification for DESIGN.md, so it can be used across any tool or platform. We’re also adding new capabilities.

DESIGN.md lets you easily export and import your design rules from project to project. Instead of guessing intent, agents know exactly what a color is for and can even validate their choices against WCAG accessibility rules.

Watch David East break down this shared visual language in action👇. New capabilities and links in 🧵

[🦄 Johannes Thor @Agustarson]

@MilksandMatcha I envision a product management workflow. It flows effortlessly from a customer's lips, all the way through design, development and release.

One feature creep at a time.

AI agents all the way down. /s

But also for kickass releases.

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Yup, still is.

One of those days today.

[🦄 Johannes Thor @Agustarson]

Is it just me or is product management chaotic as f**k?

[🦄 Johannes Thor @Agustarson]

Building is now cheaper than explaining what to build.

[🦄 Johannes Thor @Agustarson]

I ran a few ad-hoc tests on 2b and 4b models that run on an iPhone.

If you only converse with 1T+ models like Claude Opus, this is a VERY sobering experience.

[🦄 Johannes Thor @Agustarson]

Why is there so little hype around @hyperagent (pun intended) ?

I'll admit I'm only just scratching the surface, but there are so many powerful ideas there.

Easy to build complex skills. Agent runs. The automated learning suggestions feels like a gift that keeps on giving.

[🦄 Johannes Thor @Agustarson]

@NoemiTitarenco Curious to follow this. I have been thinking about tinkering with local models to see how far they can go. But it's hard to let go of the big ones.

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Honest question for PMs:

How often do you leave a meeting having promised something and then forget until you’re sitting across from that person again?

Building something small for this. Curious if it’s just me.

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@NoemiTitarenco How do you manage today? Any tools that help?

[🦄 Johannes Thor @Agustarson]

Honest question for PMs:

How often do you leave a meeting having promised something and then forget until you’re sitting across from that person again?

Building something small for this. Curious if it’s just me.

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@MatthewBerman Pretty excited about this actually.

This is feim the 26B MoE

[🦄 Johannes Thor @Agustarson]

@naval Start building to figure out what you want to build.

The most value of vibe coding has been showing me a tangible version of what I believe is a good idea. Most are not.

Letting go of the bad ideas and moving on to the next has great value.

[🦄 Johannes Thor @Agustarson]

One of my favorite uses of AI in product management is prototyping.

It can be very humbling, since I can see how bad my good ideas are.

But it takes the cost of testing an idea to almost zero.

[🦄 Johannes Thor @Agustarson]

@magicpatterns Just now I made a slight design tweak to a single screen. One step. Previously that would have been 1/100 message. This time it took 130/1000 monthly credits.

I'm using auto model picker.

That's like a 13 fold price increase.

[🦄 Johannes Thor @Agustarson]

@magicpatterns I love your product. As a PM there is no one as good in replicating designs from a single screenshot.

But I find the new credit system gives me much less work than the old one. I would say around 90% less than I got from the old system.

Am I alone in that?

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@MuLi91535980 I'll definitely let you know how it goes.

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@jspeiser Hyperagent from Airtable is also a contender. Feels like openclaw with some parental guidance.

[🦄 Johannes Thor @Agustarson]

@bhagen @airtable Got early access. First impression is that most of what I've done with Openclaw can be done with Hyperagent. Some things are easier, some not. Do you have a public roadmap?