Practical AI · Thursday, October 29, 2026
Kevin Solorio discussed his team's engagement at Focused building AI applications for blue-collar field technicians. He emphasized that adoption fails when tools are built through management proxies without direct input, advocating instead for building alongside workers and utilizing data flywheels and offline evaluation sets.
“Adoption is key. No matter what we build, adoption has to be the number one thing that happens. And we're building an app for some blue-collar workers...”
“an agent with evals is a proof of concept and this doesn't matter what infrastructure it's been deployed onto if you do not have evaluations you cannot confirm for sure that the agent is behaving as expected”