Notes, posts, and papers on headless LLM systems, agent orchestration, and platform engineering.https://jedarden.com/https://jedarden.com/notes/unit-economics-of-cattle/https://jedarden.com/notes/unit-economics-of-cattle/How to make the math work when twenty headless workers are spending money without you. Why the pet model has no built-in cost discipline, what the cattle model requires, and what to measure when tokens are the wrong unit.Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTagentsorchestrationcostclaude-governorhttps://jedarden.com/notes/deterministic-state-machines-for-agents/https://jedarden.com/notes/deterministic-state-machines-for-agents/Why agent orchestration needs explicit outcome handlers. The control structure that lets twenty headless workers run unattended without the operator becoming the loop.Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTagentsorchestrationNEEDLEstate-machineshttps://jedarden.com/notes/agents-pets-cattle/https://jedarden.com/notes/agents-pets-cattle/The infrastructure metaphor that decided how I build with LLMs. Why most people are running pets, why pets do not scale, and what cattle actually require.Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTagentsorchestrationNEEDLEclaude-governorhttps://jedarden.com/notes/welcome/https://jedarden.com/notes/welcome/Why I started these notes, what I plan to put on this surface, and what to expect.Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTmeta