Jed Arden
Agentic Systems Engineer
Orchestrating headless agent fleets, cloud-native infrastructure, and the systems that make autonomous work safe to ship
- 14 Projects
- 20 Posts
- 9 Live demos
- ~20 Agent workers
The Notebook
Recent writing
New here? Start with the workflow manual, the end-to-end process behind the fleet, and then what breaks when you run twenty agents at once.
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Your CLI has a second user now
agents
Every command-line tool you ship is now driven by language-model agents as well as people. An agent learns the tool from --help, parses stdout as data, treats the error message as its only hint, and cannot answer a prompt. Here is what that changes about help text, errors, output, flags, and login — and why the agent-friendly version is the better tool for people too.
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My agents adapt to where they work in the codebase. Here’s how.
agents
The same agent needs different instructions for a checkout form and a database migration. Here’s how I use AGENTS.md files to make that context follow the code.
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A mute gate is worse than a red one
agents
Every verification gate is designed for two states: green and red. The dangerous one is the third — a gate that produces no verdict at all. My CI started twenty-five builds in a day and finished none, and a flaky gate froze 36 tasks behind work that was already done. Red is information. Silence is the failure you don't get told about.
The Constellation
The Arcade
Live demos
- Sun Path & Shadow Simulator — The sun's arc across the sky, sunrise and sunset, twilight and golden hour, and the shadow an object casts, for any place and date.
- 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.