I am an Italian tech founder and software engineer, currently living in Lisbon. I love building products that people use every day.
Currently, I am working on Typefully, an AI-powered writing app for social media with hundreds of thousands of users worldwide.
In the past I also worked on various other projects:
- Mailbrew - Personal email digests (excited!)
- Unreadit - Semi-automated newsletters based on Reddit
- Boxy Suite - Expanded Boxy into a suite with subscription
- Boxy - Mac web wrapper for Gmail Inbox
- Libretto - Grades tracking app
I have a background in engineering and computer science and was employee number 30 at Bending Spoons, before leaving to do my own startups.
Writing
There's been a lot of talk about Ralph, which is cool, but the real interesting thing is agent orchestration in general. Everyone is going through the same phases trying to scale up how many agent sessions they can productively control in parallel. I'm at Figure 6 right now, but moving to 7/8 feels impossible unless we invent new primitives or get agents controlling other agents. Like only talking to a "manager" agent. Image credits: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04
AI agents add this background process to your brain. When you have them running, you never fully disconnect. What are they working on right now? Did something break? Should I check the output? It's like roulette. And it's especially problematic on weekends. Before, closing your laptop meant work stopped. Now the machine keeps going without you and it's hard to ignore that. On top of that, there is that instinct of "taking a peek" and nudging agents with one more prompt. As I was saying, this is especially bad on weekends. Last Saturday in a rare moment of clarity on this, I did something dramatic: I completely shut down my laptop to introduce some friction 😂 No agents, no background jobs, nothing. Did wonders for my mental health.
Code might be getting cheap but Software isn’t. It still takes humans that care to produce something truly great.
