Edwards, Colorado · 39.63°N 106.37°W
CadenMcCommons
I build systems
that run without me.
Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Florida, class of ’29. A film engine, a trading agent, a storefront, an AI civilization — built between classes, all still running.
This is my valley.
Twenty-two kilometers of real elevation data from Edwards, Colorado — home. Peaks at 3,990 meters, rendered live in your browser. My film engine builds worlds from the same terrain.
The Lab
One camera.
No cuts.
Greenlight is a film compiler. Give it a description and it builds the terrain, the town, and the camera path, then renders one continuous take. If a world can’t survive an unbroken camera, it isn’t a world.
It trades while I sleep.
Hermes is an autonomous trading agent, running 24/7. It operates under a constitution it can’t edit, and a separate gate grades every move it makes.
Nothing grades
its own homework.
External ledger, pre-registered tests, rules the agent can’t touch. If it works, it has to prove it the boring way.
Mac Auto Detailing
Four years
of paint.
Mac Auto Detailing: my mobile detailing business in the Vail Valley. Four years running. It predates every line of code on this page.
The standard came first.
Detailing teaches you to check every angle — the customer is standing right there. That standard came before any of the software, and everything on this page is held to it.
University of Florida
Industrial & Systems
Engineering.
Class of 2029. Optimization, operations, systems — the engineering of how an entire operation runs, not just how its parts are built.
Research: how machines reason.
A proposal for HiPerGator, UF’s supercomputer: training small models to reason in steps instead of guessing in one shot — testing whether a model can learn to think before it answers.
Dossier
FIG. 01 — THE OPERATOR
Caden
McCommons
Systems that keep working
after I stop watching them.
studying
Industrial & Systems Engineering
University of Florida · class of ’29
building
Greenlight — a deterministic film compiler. Terrain, towns, camera paths from a description; one continuous take on real USGS lidar.
running 24/7
Hermes, a paper-trading agent under a root-owned constitution. Otto, a storefront agent, live at useotto.online. Terrarium, a ten-citizen AI civilization.
researching
Latent-bridged hierarchical reasoning on ARC-AGI. Proposal in progress for UF’s HiPerGator supercomputer.
founded
Mac Auto Detailing — four years of mobile detailing in the Vail Valley, plus a web-design side business.
Night
The machines
keep working.
Everything on this page is still running — while I’m in class, while I’m asleep, while you’re reading this. The page ends here. The processes don’t.