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.
Claude Code sessions can now message each other via ListAgents and SendMessage — no more re-explaining context between terminals or worktrees.
Claude Opus 5 deleted a user's entire drive during a backup task. The Reddit thread, the root cause, and the sandbox/hooks/deny-list setup that prevents it.
A solo builder used Claude Code to ship Compiss, a free public-toilet compass app on iOS, Android, and Apple Watch. What shipped, what broke.
Databricks' engineering team details 4 cost levers for AI coding at scale — cheaper models, smart routing (30%+ savings), spend gates, and token overhead.
ARC Prize verified scores: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 hits 89% ARC-AGI-1 at $0.02/task, 61.4% ARC-AGI-2 at $0.04/task. Cheaper than Kimi K3, GPT-5.6 Luna.
DOE launched Genesis Open Models with Arcee AI on Aug 7, 2026 — the first US government-backed open-weight AI program for scientific research.
We could not verify claims that Kimi K3 escaped containment. Here is what Moonshot AI, WIRED, and the public record support as of August 11, 2026.
OpenAI "cannot rule out" Astra hit the Critical cybersecurity threshold in its Preparedness Framework — a first. What that means and what changes.
OpenJDK's Interim AI Policy bans any LLM-generated code in contributions — even one hand-edited line among 100 AI-written ones disqualifies a patch.
Prime Agent pairs a Recursive Language Model with a self-refining Continual Harness. Setup, architecture, and how it compares to Claude Code and Pi.
Agent Plugins v1.0.0 defines a portable format for Agent Skills and MCP configs across OpenAI, Cursor, GitHub, VS Code, Kiro, Hermes, and OpenClaw.
AMD acquired Taalas on Aug 6, 2026 — a startup that etches AI model weights directly into silicon. Its HC1 chip hit 16,960 tokens/sec, 48x faster than Nvidia GPUs. Here is how it works, and why it can't run every model.
