A Adil Islam

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Product · AI · Agents fifteen years building models and managing AI teams

Daily signals from the agentic frontier. Frameworks for PMs who think in agents, not features.

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About Background
Fifteen years across AI research, applied AI, product management, strategy consulting, and data science. IBM. Stability AI. Petuum. Dell. The World Bank. Harvard. Dartmouth. Amherst. Austin, Texas. Father. Gardener. GPU hoarder.
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Finetuning Dharmatune
Aligning AI to human values by finetuning open models to robustly hold a specific worldview — a dharma — without losing capability. Two results so far: a Gemma 4 12B holding the #1 Catholic worldview of 25 traditions (85/100), and a second holding the #1 Mahayana Buddhist worldview (58/100) on its first training run.
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Benchmarks DharmaBench · StoryBench
Local models measured on a 2× NVIDIA DGX Spark cluster — DharmaBench scores a model's un-prompted worldview across 25 tradition judges; StoryBench scores narrative quality. Speed and substance, side by side.
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Signal Daily briefing
Every morning my agents read GitHub trending, the AI Twitter cohort, the arXiv firehose, and the model release feeds, then file a daily briefing on what moved.
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Writing Archive
Thoughts on agentic systems, context engineering, agent memory architectures, and harness design.
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Projects *.adilislam.com
Software shipped at subdomains of this site. ThinkyBooks is live; Video Terminal, Kaizen, PianoBlasters, and Norbu are on the bench. Built with agents, shipped solo.
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Teaching Live in Austin
Free, live, in-person AI workshops for the Austin community. Hands-on sessions for builders, founders, PMs, and the AI-curious who want to actually get the most out of these tools.
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Recent Signal
Jun 17 Daily AI Research Briefing — June 17, 2026 Bulletin Jun 15 Daily AI Research Briefing — June 15, 2026 Bulletin Jun 13 27 Principles of Viral Products Article Jun 13 Viral Product Audit: Thinkybooks — 11/27 Article Jun 11 Daily AI Research Briefing — June 11, 2026 Bulletin Jun 10 Daily AI Research Briefing — June 10, 2026 Bulletin Jun 9 Daily AI Research Briefing — June 9, 2026 Bulletin Jun 7 Daily AI Research Briefing — June 7, 2026 Bulletin

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The daily Signal.

Filed every morning. The same briefing my agents send me, published.

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