# A new place for opinions and biases

> Why I started these notes, what I plan to put on this surface, and what to expect.

- Canonical: https://jedarden.com/notes/welcome/
- Published: 2026-05-02
- Tags: meta

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I build agent infrastructure for a living. Most of what I have learned about
running headless LLMs in production lives in commit messages, internal
docs, and conversations that never make it past the room they happen in.
This is the surface where some of it leaks out.

## What I plan to write about

- **Headless LLM systems** — the work between "agents are interesting"
  and "agents run unattended in production." Orchestration, cost
  governance, observability, fleet operations.
- **Strong opinions, weakly held** — what I currently believe about how
  agent infrastructure should be built, and why. I expect to be wrong
  about some of these and look forward to the corrections.
- **Post-mortems on my own decisions** — patterns that paid off, patterns
  that didn't, and the difference between the two.

## What I won't write about

- Hot takes on the latest model release.
- Frameworks I haven't actually used in anger.
- Speculation dressed up as expertise.

If something here is useful, it earned its place by being grounded in a
shipped system. The bar is "code I run, problems I hit, fixes that
actually held."

— Jed