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.
System76 bans all LLM-generated content in COSMIC pull requests. The exact rule, Jeremy Soller reasoning, exceptions, and what maintainers can learn.
Google removes Gemini Flash from free and Pro from AI Plus starting Oct 9, 2026. Plan-by-plan table, what to do now, and options if you rely on Pro.
Tibo posted "6.1 coming soon" though 6.1 Sol is live. His own reply says "6.1 sol ultrafast." What that means for the cancelled 6.1 Astra.
MCP Events lets an MCP server wake ChatGPT or Dots with signed webhooks. Subscribe flow, Standard Webhooks signing, SSRF rules, and a build checklist.
What is an MCP rug pull and tool poisoning? Four MCP attack classes, the postmark-mcp case, what scanners miss, and a pinning-and-scanning checklist.
ThinkingBox grades agents on database state across 121,680 trials. Even the best models pass 20 of 20 runs on only 47.5% of tasks. What it means for builders.
Musk posted "No more AI. SI." and said "we will make that change." What is confirmed, what SI means, and why the AI consciousness debate flared.
David Robinson, who led OpenAI safety reports, quit in an Atlantic essay: labs should run like nuclear plants. His claims, OpenAI reply, and HN pushback.
Is the terminal dead for coding agents? The 828K-view claim, Claude Code Desktop vs Codex app, tmux orchestrators, and how to choose your interface.
Top 10 MCP servers 2026, six open source and four closed hosted. What each does, trade-offs, and a pre-connect security checklist.
Vercel confirmed a KVM zero-day VM escape and paid a $50,000 bounty. No CVE or patch yet. What it means for agent sandboxes and what to do now.
What is the Turing test? Turing 1950 rules, the 30% rule, ELIZA, Eugene Goostman, GPT-4.5 at 73%, criticisms, and better ways to measure AI today.
