Jed Arden
Agentic Systems Engineer
Orchestrating headless agent fleets, cloud-native infrastructure, and the systems that make autonomous work safe to ship
- 14 Projects
- 26 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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Claude Code Pricing: What It Costs, and How to Run It Free
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Claude Code starts at $20/month with Pro. Free provider tiers and local models can power it too; here are the limits, setup steps, and trial results.
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Codex Pricing and Usage Limits: What Each Plan Delivers, Measured
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Codex costs $0–$500 a month. My $200 account recorded $2,409 of API-priced work in four weeks; here are the limits and the tier I would buy.
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Claude Pro vs Max vs Ultra: Which Plan Is Worth It, Measured
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Is Max worth it? Four months on a metered $200 account, scaled to Pro and Max: Pro limits, the Team plan, pay per token, and a plan picker.
Guides
- Claude Code Pricing: What It Costs, and How to Run It Free
- Codex Pricing and Usage Limits: What Each Plan Delivers, Measured
- Claude Pro vs Max vs Ultra: Which Plan Is Worth It, Measured
- OpenCode vs Claude Code: Is the Open-Source Agent a Real Alternative?
- GLM Coding Plan Review: Four Months of GLM-5.3 Behind Claude Code
- Codex vs Claude Code: What Each Is Good At, and When You Would Pick the Other
- CI on Rackspace Spot: an Argo Workflows alternative to GitHub Actions for about $0.01/hr
- Rackspace Spot from zero: a spot-priced Kubernetes cluster with a DevPod dev environment
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.