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Zach Landes
Personal blog · zachlandes.comprogrammingaieconomics
Zach Landes's personal blog at zachlandes.com covers programming, ai and economics. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Jev meets the Trolley Problem”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in discussions of AI agents and LLM decision-making, where one commenter cites a post showing inconsistent model answers, and in a comment on the site's minimal content layout.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Product engineer, consultant, and published economist in San Francisco. I write about software development, my experiments in AI and social science, and whatever else I'm excited about.
Most-linked posts?
- Jev meets the Trolley Problem2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-15
What Hacker News says?
I was quite inspired by the content bar of this site: https://zachlandes.com/trolley-problem and gwern. Though I do think my blog isn't particularly all that minimal I try to add a lot of colors to make it look less dull.
Comment linking /trolley-problem
on “We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry”Submitted Jev meets the Trolley Problem as a story · 656 points
HN discussionThis is common knowledge though, and not some deep math problem, small children understand this concept. If they cannot get something so simple right, while at the same time offered as a decision with likelihoods machine, why should I trust their other answers with "probability" they produce? Here's another post that shows how fragile or inconsistent, even dangerous, these decision models can be: https://zachlandes.…
Comment linking /trolley-problem/
on “We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers”