Applied AI Digest: Volume 3What AI engineers need to know from the past two weeks — picked by Fractional AI.Apr 15, 2026·3 min read
Using MCPs with Evals When I joined Fractional AI, one of the first lessons I learned was that evaluations drive every major decision in our projects, from first prototype through post-launch improvement. In our initial cuMar 19, 2026·3 min read
Applied AI Digest: Volume 1Top links and resources from Fractional AI, curated for AI engineers. Mar 18, 2026·2 min read
The "Quick Fix" That Works: Runtime Patching in PythonMotivation We wanted to generate demo videos with the python library Supervision but they wouldn't play in Chrome. There was a one-line fix buried inside the library -- but the public API gave us no wFeb 25, 2026·4 min read
If I could turn back timeHave you ever exclaimed after a few hours engaged in some fruitless activity, "Well, that's X hours of my life I'll never get back"? Or, when in a reflective mood, "I wish I knew this when I was 16!"?Feb 19, 2026·3 min read
Your Evals Have a Rotten Tomatoes ProblemYou push a change to a prompt and your eval score drops from 0.91 to 0.84. Something got worse, but the score doesn’t tell you what. So you start re-running the pipeline, tweaking your inputs, pouringFeb 12, 2026·8 min read
