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.
A viral tier list ranked Oh My Pi S-tier and Claude Code/Codex B-tier — with Hermes missing entirely. Here's what holds up and what doesn't.
Grep.ai's AgentRun lets an agent do a job once, then write itself out of the loop as a workflow — cutting AML alert cost from $2.89 to $0.25.
Amazon cut off Meta's Muse agent from shopping on Amazon.com, citing undisclosed access, no self-identification, and credential capture.
Andrew Ng's Batch 371 letter: AI fear is overhyped, Hugging Face swarm headlines misread parallelism, cyber risk is real but fixable — keep building.
Cloudflare Worker Previews: npx wrangler preview gives every git branch its own Worker, URL, Durable Objects, and logs. Ships in Wrangler 4.135.0.
SpaceXAI shipped Grok 4.7 on Sept 21 at the same $2/$6 as 4.6. It leads EEBench and Harvey Legal, trails Fable 5.1 on CursorBench.
Hugging Face shipped tokenizers v1.0.0-rc.2 with up to ~30× encode speed vs v0.23, smaller binaries, and identical token IDs — what builders should do now.
Jason Liu's essay says AI gives you the "chart," not the "ear." Taste, not ability, is now the bottleneck. What that means for AI builders in 2026.
LangChain added TypeSafe Jev as a LangSmith judge and Gateway provider — online evals on live traces, typed questions, and per-trace cost at Jev rates.
Linear's Sep 2026 CI post: 4x tests, ~half runner time per test, tsgo, Oxlint, eight Vitest shards, and why agents made CI the bottleneck.
Meta's Petal cable will carry 1 petabit per second between France and the US by 2029 — double today's fastest transatlantic cable, via 2-core fiber.
A single X account claims OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cognition will ship personal agent platforms within a month. No primary source exists yet.
