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The non-technical PM’s guide to building with Cursor | Zevi Arnovitz (Meta)

January 18, 2026

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🎙️ The Voices & The Context

The Format: Interview with live screen-share demo of building a product feature.
The Key Players:
- Host: Lenny Rachitsky, podcaster focused on product management and AI tools.
- Guest: Zevi Arnowitz, young PM at Meta (previously Wix), non-technical (music background, no coding experience), famous for "vibe coding" real apps like StudyMate using AI.
The Vibe: Exciting, inspirational, hands-on educational—hype around AI democratizing building.

🗝️ Key Themes & Topics

The episode dives into AI tools enabling non-technical PMs to ship real products, with a live demo of Zevi's workflow.

Topic 1: Zevi's origin story and AI "superpowers"—from Japan trip watching YouTube demos (Bolt/Lovable) to building solo startups as a non-coder.
Topic 2: Core workflow in Cursor with Claude Code: Slash commands for issue creation (Linear integration), exploration, planning, execution, multi-model reviews, and docs updates.
Topic 3: Code review hacks—self-review, peer reviews across models (Claude as communicative CTO, Codex as hoodie coder, Gemini as wild designer), plus post-mortems to iterate prompts.
Topic 4: Broader advice—start slow with GPT projects for "exposure therapy," AI for PM interviews/job prep, future of roles (titles collapsing, best time for juniors).

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What you'll learn

1 (00:00) **🎙️ Introduction: Zevi Arnowitz**
2 (04:46) **Zevi's Non-Technical Journey to AI Building**
3 (07:42) **High-Level Workflow Overview**
4 (14:43) **Live Demo: Cursor Slash Commands & StudyMate App**
5 (23:36) **Exploration & Planning Phases**
6 (30:54) **Execution & Tool Comparisons**
7 (38:43) **Code Review & Peer Review Process**

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Show Notes

Zevi Arnovitz is a product manager at Meta with no technical background who has figured out how to build and ship real products using AI. His engineering team at Meta asks him to teach them how he does what he does. In this episode, Zevi breaks down his complete AI workflow that allows non-technical people to build sophisticated products with Cursor.

We discuss:

1. The complete AI workflow that lets non-technical people build real products in Cursor

2. How to use multiple AI models for different tasks (Claude for planning, Gemini for UI)

3. Using slash commands to automate prompts

4. Zevi’s “peer review” technique, which uses different AI models to review each other’s code

5. Why this might be the best time to be a junior in tech, despite the challenging job market

6. How Zevi used AI to prepare for his Meta PM interviews

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