Jed Arden
Agentic Systems Engineer
Orchestrating headless agent fleets, cloud-native infrastructure, and the systems that make autonomous work safe to ship
- 14 Projects
- 15 Posts
- 9 Live demos
- ~20 Agent workers
The Notebook
Recent writing
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CI on Rackspace Spot: an Argo Workflows alternative to GitHub Actions for about $0.01/hr
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GitHub Actions went down for five hours on August 6, 2026 — the sixth incident in six days. Here's the pattern I run instead: Argo Workflows + Argo Events on a Rackspace Spot cluster, with an on-demand fallback pool so preemption never fails a build.
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Trust is a property of the system, not the agent
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A near-miss with a git flag once put three volumes of real data one sync cycle from deletion — caught by luck, not by design. The right fix wasn't more vigilance. It was building the trust into the system itself: an agent doesn't need to be trusted, an action needs to be cheap to undo.
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What breaks when you run twenty agents at once
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A failure taxonomy from a year of running coding-agent fleets unattended. Eight ways a fleet dies, none of which involve the model — and the operational discipline they add up to.
The Constellation
The Arcade
Live demos
- Adaptive Auto-Battler — PvE auto-battler with a self-learning enemy AI — runs entirely in the browser.
- Face Detection — Real-time face detection in the browser via webcam.
- Gait Analysis — Real-time human pose and motion tracking from a webcam feed.