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Published · transcript-backedZevi Arnovitz: recommendation
18 Jan 2026 Lenny's Podcast The non-technical PM’s guide to building with Cursor | Zevi Arnovitz (Meta)
“I think if you see this where I'm working like in Claude or in Cursor, you might be excited to start using those, but I would really recommend starting slow with a GPT project, beautiful UI, super simple, then maybe graduate to like a Bolt or a Lovable, and then go to Cursor in light mode, slowly, slowly, gradually ease in until you open a terminal, go full dark mode, go full dev.”
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- 18 Jan 2026
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…So this is, just to be super clear, you have a ChatGPT project that you've given a prompt to be your CTO of your product and being a non-technical person, this is kind of like the thing you talk to when, and we'll get to what you're actually using to build when you have questions about architecture and decisions that are technical. Yeah. So now I'll show my full workflow and I don't involve GPT anymore, but I definitely would recommend, even though the technology has gone ... So when I started this, there was no plan mode or ask mode. It was just build on these products on Lovable and Bolt, and they've progressed a ton. A lot of what I had as workflows have become ingrained in these products, which is really interesting. I would still recommend start with a project for, first of all, the reason that I said, and also it kind of puts you in a place where you're in a chatbot and not writing code. So you take the time to converse and to learn, which I think is critical. And the second thing is if you're non-technical like me, code is terrifying. It's the scariest thing in the world to look at, and I look at it as kind of like exposure therapy. I think if you see this where I'm working like in Claude or in Cursor, you might be excited to start using those, but I would really recommend starting slow with a GPT project, beautiful UI, super simple, then maybe graduate to like a Bolt or a Lovable, and then go to Cursor in light mode, slowly, slowly, gradually ease in until you open a terminal, go full dark mode, go full dev. So I would really recommend doing this gradually. That is awesome advice. And so just to be clear, these days you're using Cursor with Claude Code powering it. And what I love about that is that you've never written code. The way you put it, you're afraid of even looking at code.…
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