Arnovitz: Prompt post-mortems separate mediocre AI users from proficient builders
Zevi Arnovitz · How a Meta PM ships products without ever writing code | Zevi Arnovitz · Jan 18, 2026 · at 47:21
Meta Product Manager Zevi Arnovitz discusses best practices for non-technical builders using LLMs and AI coding assistants like Cursor and Claude Code.
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“Going back to your prompts, understanding what was not good enough, iterating on them, and then seeing how AI's responses get better. I think that's probably one of the most important things. And one of the things that divides between people who are like okay with using AI and the people who actually know how to use it.”
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