Applied AI Solutions Architect
Tula
Masterman
I research and build AI systems and share what I find along the way.
Making AI approachable — one concept at a time.
What I write about
AI in practice, lessons learned, and what it's like to navigate a fast-moving field.
About me
Swimmer · Reader · Portia's dog mom.
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AI in Practice
Overcome Failing Document Ingestion & RAG Strategies with Agentic Knowledge Distillation
This piece introduces the Pyramid Approach, an agentic knowledge distillation technique that transforms messy source documents into structured, retrieval-ready knowledge.
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Recent Writing
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Navigating a Fast-Moving Field
A Year in Review: What I've Been Up To (And What I've Learned)
Reflections on growth, working in AI, and walking the dog.
AI in Practice
Improving Agent Systems & AI Reasoning
DeepSeek-R1, OpenAI o1 and o3, test-time compute scaling, model post-training — and what the shift toward Reasoning Language Models actually means for the people building agent systems on top of them.
Research
Introducing Layer Enhanced Classification (LEC)
A novel approach to lightweight safety classification that outperforms GPT-4o on content safety and prompt injection detection — using fewer than 100 training examples and a 0.5B parameter model. Here's how it works and why it matters.
