Jed Arden
Agentic Systems Engineer
Orchestrating headless agent fleets, cloud-native infrastructure, and the systems that make autonomous work safe to ship
- 14 Projects
- 17 Posts
- 9 Live demos
- ~20 Agent workers
The Notebook
Recent writing
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'Ignore .env' is not a defense
agents
A worker once obeyed every rule about secrets and still pasted a live token into a notes file, twice, and committed it. The rule it had was a sentence in a prompt. What I run now is a stack of controls that hold even when the model doesn't — identity, scope, transport, proof, and a hook — none of them foolproof, all of them more than a wish.
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Don't be the meat proxy
agents
When you copy the output of one system and paste it into another, you are operating as a network link made of meat: slow, lossy, unlogged, and off-shift sixteen hours a day. Human judgment belongs in the loop. Human transport never does. Build the channel once, and keep your attention for the decisions.
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CI on Rackspace Spot: an Argo Workflows alternative to GitHub Actions for about $0.01/hr
kubernetes Last verified ·
GitHub Actions spent nearly nine hours degraded 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.
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.