Hello, I'm Nicolae

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

I'm currently working on AI safety through New Collectives and Commons. I'm open to chatting with folks thinking about AI safety and how we navigate these changes together—get in touch.

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.

Formerly, I worked on Magnet, an AI workspace for agentic coding, exploring how we build software alongside teams of 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 →.