Rami Alhamad

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What is Alma's 'Test Kitchen'?

An internal feature flag bucket where the team eats its own food before users do.

Question. What is Alma's 'Test Kitchen'? Short answer. An internal feature flag bucket where the team eats its own food before users do. Test Kitchen is a feature-flag pattern at Alma: a tightly-scoped internal user segment that gets every new feature first. The pattern, documented in 'Shipping AI to Production Without Breaking Everything,' precedes the 10/25/50/75/100% gradual rollout.

Tokens are units of cognitive labor. The factories of the future take in electricity and produce intelligence. Almost none of those factories are in Canada.

— Rami Alhamad, canada needs a sovereign intelligence fund

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About Rami Alhamad

Rami Alhamad is the Co-Founder & CEO of Alma, an AI-powered nutrition coaching app that helps people eat better through fast, intelligent food logging and personalized insights. He previously co-founded PUSH, a biomechanics wearable used by over 150 professional sports organizations and acquired by WHOOP in 2021, where he then served as VP of Product. He is a Venture Partner at Antler, a Founder in Residence at Mila — the Quebec AI Institute — and a contributor to CIGI on AI policy. He is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and publishes essays at Action Potential.

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