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Zevi Arnovitz: preference

18 Jan 2026 Lenny's Podcast The non-technical PM’s guide to building with Cursor | Zevi Arnovitz (Meta)

“She's very opinionated, but also super collaborative, which is I think why I'm always drawn to Claude because I need to do so much learning and it's your dream, a very communicative, but very opinionated dev lead, but then there's also Codex.”

— Zevi Arnovitz

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Zevi Arnovitz
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preference
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18 Jan 2026
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Lenny's Podcast

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…Each model. Yeah. Each model has such distinct characteristics. So let's say Claude, she would be the perfect CTO. She's very communicative. She's very smart. She doesn't just go with the flow and do whatever you tell her. She's very opinionated, but also super collaborative, which is I think why I'm always drawn to Claude because I need to do so much learning and it's your dream, a very communicative, but very opinionated dev lead, but then there's also Codex. So I use Codex 5.1 Max, whatever. I don't know, they're not the best at naming models, but GPT's model. I always imagine it as like the best coder within the company who comes to the office with a hoodie and sandals and sits in a dark room. And you basically only bother him when you have the worst bugs and you say, "Listen, we have this bug and it will just close the door for two hours and come out and say, I fixed it." And you're like, "Wait, what? Are you going to tell us what happened or whatever?" And he's like, "Don't worry about it. I fixed it." It's like really not communicative, but it solves all the worst problems. And let's say Gemini is like a crazy scientist who's super artsy, super talented at designing, but if you sit next to it and watch it work, it's terrifying. You would fire that person instantly. This might be just my experience, but when I'm using Gemini within antigravity, which is Google's new competitor to Cursor, when it's writing code, you can see the steps it's taking and it's terrifying. You'll say, "I want you to redesign the top of the dashboard." And you're looking at its thought process and it will say, "Oh, first things first, I'll delete the dashboard." And then it'll be like, "Nope, that was a mistake. I'll bring it back." And then it will say, "Oh, can I edit the database?" And you're like, "No, do not edit the database. You're just doing a redesign." And then it will end up designing something beautiful. So the way there is a rollercoaster and very scary, but at the end of the day, Gemini is very good at design. So I think that using all these models and basically playing to their strengths and mitigating their weaknesses by using other models is a game changer for me. So I'll do peer review a bunch of times and I'll have other models review other models code and kind of have them fight it out basically. Sometimes Claude Code will get really sassy and be like, "This has been raised for the third time. And for the third time I'm telling you, this is not an issue. This is by design." So it's just a really cool thing that I've added and I haven't seen many people doing it. That is such an incredible rant/way to understand what's going on. Okay, awesome. So we just ran the review. So show us what we saw there and let's actually try this peer review. I'm really excited to see what you learned there.…

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