This week on patchperfect, we kick things off with a quick look at the 2025 Spotify Wrapped drop, then shift into a spotlight on ⁠Mira Murati⁠, former OpenAI CTO and now founder of Thinking Machines Lab.⁠

Raised in post communist Albania, Mira found stability early on in math and physics before building a career that took her through Goldman Sachs in Tokyo, Tesla's Model X and Autopilot teams, Leap Motion, and ultimately OpenAI, where she helped shape dialogue based interfaces like ChatGPT. We talk about her new startup's tool, Tinker, and how it is making fine tuning models like Llama more accessible even for small teams with minimal code.

This is the patch:

• how modern AI tooling is becoming more developer friendly
• why fine tuning matters for building useful models
• what the next wave of AI platforms may look like beyond big labs
• how individual builders are shaping the direction of the field

At its core, this episode is about access, and how lowering technical barriers can change who gets to build with AI.

We close with a lifestyle segment on Mira's crisp personal style, including her clean minimalist 2024 Met Gala look⁠, as a more human glimpse of one of the most influential builders in AI.

If you are curious about where AI tools are headed and who is building them, this episode will leave you feeling informed and inspired.

All views expressed are my own.