Murat Ayfer
Product-minded engineer building AI, audio, and web projects
Vancouver, BC
Joined February 2026
Summary
Product‑focused builder of AI and social products: Murat is the creator of Philosopher AI and the designer/technical lead behind social and community projects such as Spiel and CEO.CA, combining product design, prompt engineering, and practical safety tooling to deploy experimental AI services. philosopherai+2
Hands‑on technical engineer and toolmaker: he builds low‑level, performance‑minded tooling and experiments (GPU audio simulations, PostgreSQL profiling tools, local inference/agent tooling and dev‑oriented packages), demonstrating a preference for practical, measurable systems work. github+2
Experienced community and platform operator: as a technical lead/partner for CEO.CA he worked on product, moderation and infrastructure for a large investor community and remained involved as the platform transitioned ownership, reflecting experience with scaling, monetization and community governance. ceo+1
Educator and creative technologist: Murat has taught in multiple instructional roles (bootcamps and weekend coding schools) and pursues creative technical projects in music and generative art, blending pedagogy with creative practice. muratayfer+1
Work
Education
Projects
Writing
OpenAI's GPT-3 Speaks! (Kindly Disregard Toxic Language)
February 1, 2021Overview of GPT‑3 deployment and safety concerns that references the Philosopher AI project and the developer's work to implement content filters and reporting.
GPT-3 Bot Spends a Week Replying on Reddit, Starts Talking About the Illuminati
October 1, 2020Report on a GPT‑3-powered Reddit posting incident tied to Philosopher AI; includes confirmation and commentary from the project's developer.
This Philosopher AI has its own existential questions to answer
August 1, 2020Article describing Philosopher AI, its GPT‑3 foundation, design goals around prompt engineering and safety, and reactions to controversial outputs.