Founder of explainx.ai and AI educator
Yash Thakker
Yash Thakker is the founder of explainx.ai. His work focuses on AI education, product development, and practical uses of generative AI.
About Yash Thakker
Yash Thakker is an AI instructor and product builder who founded explainx.ai in 2023. He teaches live generative AI workshops and creates courses on Udemy and Coursera, covering AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation, AI tools, and product development.
Before founding explainx.ai, he worked in software development and product roles at companies including SDL, IDfy, Fynd, and PixelBin. His work also includes AI products such as Olly.social and Infloq.
His personal website reports more than 350,000 students taught and over 50 courses. These figures are self-reported and were checked on September 15, 2026.
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- Are You Hitting Codex Quota Fast? Tibo's Reset, and What Was Burning It →
If your Codex or ChatGPT Work meter fell through the floor this weekend, you were not imagining it. OpenAI's Tibo Sottiaux named three product drains, pushed a full reset for paid plans on August 24, and closed a continue-after-zero quirk. explainx.ai maps the timeline, what still burns quota, and why GPT can drop tasks without saying so.
- AI Hallucination Legal Cases: Why Lawyers Keep Getting Sanctioned →
Mata v. Avianca made headlines in 2023 as the first AI hallucination sanction. It was the opening act, not the exception. A public case tracker now documents well over 1,500 court filings worldwide where fabricated AI citations reached a judge — and the pattern behind who gets sanctioned hardest has almost nothing to do with the original mistake.
- Deepfake Fraud: Inside the $25.6 Million Video Call Scam →
A finance employee at an engineering firm's Hong Kong office joined a video call where every other participant, including someone who appeared to be the company's CFO, was an AI-generated deepfake — and authorized $25.6 million in transfers before anyone caught it. We break down the fraud pattern behind it, a case where the same tactic failed, and the one low-tech habit that keeps beating high-tech deception.
- Shadow AI: The Silent Privacy Risk in Every Workplace →
Roughly two in three employees already use AI tools at work, but fewer than one in five organizations have a formal AI usage policy. That gap has a name — shadow AI — and it's the quietest, most expensive way responsible AI use breaks down. We cover the mechanism, a widely reported real-world leak, and what actually reduces the risk without banning tools.