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Zevi Arnovitz studied music. He couldn't write a single line of code. Yet he's shipped two live products solo, and Meta's engineering team asked him to teach them his workflow. That's not a typo. In a recent Lenny's Podcast episode , Zevi broke down exactly how he went from zero coding knowledge to independently building products like StudyMate and Dibur2text using Cursor and Claude Code -- all within about a year. When you dig into his process, it's clear this isn't casual vibe coding. It's a structured, repeatable system that any PM can learn. Here's what makes his approach different and what you can steal from it today. Vibe Coding Sounds Great Until It Breaks Vibe coding is a term coined by Andrej Karpathy in early 2025. It refers to describing what you want in plain language and letting AI generate the code. Tools like Bolt, Lovable, and Replit have made "build an app without coding" a mainstream pitch in 2026. Zevi started ther...