Jed Arden
Agentic Systems Engineer
Orchestrating headless agent fleets, cloud-native infrastructure, and the systems that make autonomous work safe to ship
- 14 Projects
- 18 Posts
- 9 Live demos
- ~20 Agent workers
The Notebook
Recent writing
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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.
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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.
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.