// Site sections — Home / About / Writing / Work / Contact // Direction A (Terminal Engineer), warmed (voice dial 70). const Logo = ({ size = 32 }) => ( MA ); // ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── // HOME // ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── function HomeSection() { const [typed, setTyped] = React.useState(''); const full = '$ whoami'; React.useEffect(() => { let i = 0; const t = setInterval(() => { i++; setTyped(full.slice(0, i)); if (i >= full.length) clearInterval(t); }, 80); return () => clearInterval(t); }, []); return (
{typed}

Hi, I'm Adrian.
I build software
like it matters.

Full-stack developer, fifteen years in. I've taught hundreds of people how to write their first line of code — and right now I'm a student again, learning to build with AI agents. This site is where I think out loud about both.

→ Read what I'm writing cat ./about.md
{/* Terminal card */}
~/adrian — zsh
$ stat adrian.marcu
name.......... Adrian Marcu
role.......... full-stack · PHP · AI
shipping...... since 2012
students...... 200+ mentored
focus......... coding with agents
$ echo $TAGLINE
"Nobody cares more than me."
$
); } // ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── // ABOUT // ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── function AboutSection() { return (
$cat ./about.md

The long way around.

{[ ['2012', 'first paid line of code'], ['2016', 'joined KeepCalling'], ['2019', 'became a technical trainer'], ['2024', 'started building with agents'], ['2026', 'writing about it'], ].map(([y, t]) => (
{y} {t}
))}

I started writing code in 2012, picking up freelance projects before most people had heard the word "responsive." Fifteen years later I've shipped PHP backends, React frontends, Magento extensions, Spryker microservices, and the occasional DevOps fire-drill — usually all in the same week.

Somewhere in the middle, I started teaching. First as a technical trainer at Azimut Vision, then as a mentor at Școala Informală de IT. I thought I'd hate standing in front of a room. I didn't. Watching someone write their first{' '} console.log("hello") and realize they just talked to a machine — that never gets old. One of my students invited me to his wedding, which I think is the best performance review I'm ever going to get.

These days I'm spending most of my brain on{' '} coding with agents{' '} — pairing Claude with real client work on production Spryker and Node.js codebases. What works, what doesn't, what's actually useful versus what just demos well. I'm not an expert at it yet. I'm writing about it precisely because I'm not.

Nobody cares more than me.
// the only credential that matters
); } // ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── // WRITING // ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── const POSTS = [ { cat: 'AGENTS', date: '02 May 2026', read: '8 min', title: 'The four agent failures I keep hitting (and what fixes them).', excerpt: 'A field log of the dumb mistakes my agents make on real codebases. Spoiler: most of them are my prompts, not the model.', href: 'agent-failures.html', }, { cat: 'TUTORIAL', date: '24 Apr 2026', read: '12 min', title: "Setting up an agent that won't silently break your repo.", excerpt: 'Step-by-step: scoped permissions, a dry-run gate, a review loop, and the exact prompt that saved me from a force-push.', href: 'agent-safe-repo.html', }, { cat: 'AI NEWS', date: '15 Apr 2026', read: '4 min', title: "What this week's model release actually means for me.", excerpt: 'Cutting through the benchmark noise with one question: did anything in my actual workflow get easier today? Sometimes yes.', href: 'model-release.html', }, { cat: 'TUTORIAL', date: '02 Apr 2026', read: '15 min', title: 'Teaching juniors to pair with an agent without forgetting how to code.', excerpt: 'Notes from a class I ran last month. The trick is making them write the failing test first — even if the agent finishes it.', href: 'teaching-juniors.html', }, ]; function WritingSection() { return (
$ls ./writing

Field notes from
the workshop.

Mostly about coding with AI agents — what's working, what's embarrassing, what I'd tell a junior. Plus the occasional tutorial.

{POSTS.length} posts · updated weekly
{POSTS.map((p) => (
{p.cat} {p.date} · {p.read}

{p.title}

{p.excerpt}

read.md →
))}
); } // ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── // WORK // ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── const WORK = [ { id: '01', tag: 'FULLSTACK', title: 'Agile Networks Technologies', meta: 'Sibiu · 2022–Present', stack: 'Node.js · Spryker · Next.js', note: 'Full-stack across Node.js, Spryker, Symfony, Next.js and Shopware. The kind of shop where you ship it and you own it.', }, { id: '02', tag: 'BACKEND', title: 'KeepCalling', meta: 'Sibiu · 2016–2022', stack: 'PHP · MySQL · various', note: 'Six years on a high-traffic telecom platform. Learned what "scale" actually means when real people are making real phone calls.', }, { id: '03', tag: 'E-COMM', title: 'Freelance e-commerce', meta: 'Various · 2012–2022', stack: 'PHP · Magento · OpenCart', note: 'Nine years of Magento extensions, custom modules, and production migrations. The kind of work where you own the whole stack.', }, { id: '04', tag: 'TEACHING', title: 'Mentor & Technical Trainer', meta: 'Azimut / Școala Inf. IT · 2019–', stack: 'JS · React · patience', note: '200+ students through intro-to-code programs. Still mentoring. One of them invited me to his wedding — best review I\'ve had.', }, { id: '05', tag: 'AI', title: 'Agent-assisted code review', meta: 'Side project · 2025–', stack: 'Claude · Node.js · Hono', note: 'Building a tool that pairs Claude with real PR workflows on Spryker codebases. Writing about it as I go — see the field notes.', }, ]; function WorkSection() { return (
$ls -la ./work

Things I've shipped.

A short list. NDAs and old habits keep most of it private — these are the projects I can talk about without lawyering myself.

#TYPEPROJECTSTACK
{WORK.map((w, i) => (
e.currentTarget.style.background = 'var(--bg-2)'} onMouseLeave={e => e.currentTarget.style.background = 'transparent'} > {w.id} {w.tag}
{w.title}
{w.note}
{w.meta}
{w.stack} →
))}
); } // ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── // CONTACT // ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── function ContactSection() { return (
$./say-hi

Tell me what
you're building.

I'm not looking for work right now — but I love a good conversation about agents, teaching, or that one bug that kept you up last Tuesday. Email is fastest.

hello@marcuadrian.dev → in/adrianmarcu
~/adrian — contact
$ ls ./channels
email ......... hello@marcuadrian.dev
linkedin ...... in/adrianmarcu
location ...... Sibiu, Romania
writing ....... this very page
$ uptime
15 years, still curious
$
); } // ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── // NAV + FOOTER // ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── function Nav({ theme, accent, onThemeChange, onAccentChange }) { const [active, setActive] = React.useState('home'); React.useEffect(() => { const ids = ['home','about','writing','work','contact']; const obs = new IntersectionObserver(entries => { entries.forEach(e => { if (e.isIntersecting) setActive(e.target.id); }); }, { rootMargin: '-40% 0px -55% 0px' }); ids.forEach(id => { const el = document.getElementById(id); if (el) obs.observe(el); }); return () => obs.disconnect(); }, []); return ( ); } function Footer() { return ( ); } Object.assign(window, { HomeSection, AboutSection, WritingSection, WorkSection, ContactSection, Nav, Footer, });