Expert profile
Founder & AI Product Leader
Yash Thakker is a Generative AI expert with over 12 years of experience in product leadership and technical strategy. As the founder of explainx.ai, he has taught over 300,000 learners and built AI platforms serving millions of users globally. He specializes in Agentic AI, Multimodal RAG, and the intersection of LLMs with consumer hardware.
Cloudflare measured automated bots at 57% of web requests and forecasts much more machine traffic. Here's what builders should measure, allow, and block.
Canva slashed its 2026 revenue growth guidance from 30% to 20% after AI feature costs "rose dramatically." Here's what Melanie Perkins said, the real numbers, and why this hits any SaaS company shipping AI at scale.
Claude Desktop has zero filesystem access out of the box. Here is how MCP, extensions, and Cowork change that — and how to sandbox, scope, and lock it down.
DHH says Fable rewrote TerminalTextEffects from Python to Rust in 11M tokens, cutting startup from 87ms to 2ms. What the result proves—and does not.
A 465+ point HN thread debates ChipTycoon, an LLM-built learning simulation. Here's the honest synthesis of a genuinely two-sided argument.
Meta open-sourced Muse Glimmer, a 30B agentic model under Apache 2.0, distilled from Muse Spark and built to run locally on a single GPU.
A Microsoft research paper analyzing 761M production LLM calls found 87% are agent-initiated, not human-triggered — real usage data, not a demo claim.
Mistral won US Patent 12,670,045 B1 for LLMs writing code to call tools. Cloudflare, Anthropic, OpenAI, and a 2024 paper already describe the same idea.
New Orleans is the first major US city confirmed running AI on live 911 traffic. Here's exactly what Carbyne's system automates, what stays human, and what it risks.
OpenAI revoked a vetted Bitcoin researcher's cyber-program access while his team used Kimi K3. Here's what is confirmed and what remains unproven.
OpenAI sent Governor Abbott a two-sentence letter one week after Texas paused new data centers over a 474GW ERCOT interconnection queue.
A Melbourne man's OpenClaw agent found an unauthenticated gym API and cancelled a stranger's class booking to move him up a waitlist. Here's what actually happened, what's still unconfirmed, and why the framing matters.
