Hello, I'm Nicolae

I'm a designer, programmer, and entrepreneur, interested in the future of how we build and use software.

I'm spending most of my time building with AI and exploring the new types of computing experiences it enables. I'm trying to share more of my ideas here, and to prototype and work in public.

I believe AI will substantially reshape our notion of what "programming", "computers", and "language" mean in these next few years. These changes will also require us to rethink our interactions with each other, and how we organize as societies.

My outlook on AI is that I'm simultaneously excited to explore the technology, and also concerned about the potential negative, expected and unexpected, impacts it could have on society. I'm also troubled that our technological progress seems to far-outpace our progress in navigating the complexities of coordinating new ways to organize and figure out how to be together. Our emotional interactions, and our ability to signal and understand to one another, are not adapting in pace with the new tools we are creating.

Currently I'm working mostly on Magnet , an AI workspace for agentic coding. We're building the Context Engine that makes AI agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex more successful, faster, and cheaper. Write a ticket, Magnet assembles context, fires to agents in parallel Git worktree sandboxes, and PRs appear. We're exploring the future UX of what it means to build software alongside a team of compounding AI agents.

I've been building companies since I was in college. I previously cofounded Clay, which is a New York–based sales-intelligence and go-to-market (GTM) automation platform that you can read more about on the about page.

I also cofounded Frame and The Shared Web, and invest in and advise startups.

For more in-depth info on all of the the above check out the about page →.