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Published · transcript-backedLenny Rachitsky: uncertainty
18 Jan 2026 Lenny's Podcast The non-technical PM’s guide to building with Cursor | Zevi Arnovitz (Meta)
“Say it's not like Meta, but just like, I don't know, a thousand person company, 500 people.”
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- Lenny Rachitsky
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- 18 Jan 2026
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…Exactly. Okay. There's a couple directions I want to make sure we touch on. One is coming back to a question I asked earlier about how this might work at a larger company. Say it's not like Meta, but just like, I don't know, a thousand person company, 500 people. How much of this can you plug and play into a workflow as a PM at a larger company? What would be your advice for someone that may want to start trying to ship code, at least showing people what's possible? I think that first making your code base AI native is a really important step, and I think this needs to be done by technical people. So basically my codebase has a ton of just plain text in it. So it will have a bunch of markdown files that explain to agents how to work in certain areas of the code base and high level structure so that the agents navigate through the code base easier. And I think that if this is set up in a really good way, I still don't think PMs should be shipping heavy database chain migrations or any big project, but contained UI projects, especially if you just build it, create the PR and send it to a dev to do the final finishes. I think that's definitely something that's possible. And I think we're going to see that a lot in the next coming years. I think basically everyone's going to become a builder, so it should be really interesting.…
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