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.
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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- Paul Graham: Why LLMs Crush Math but Lag at Writing →
On August 3, 2026, Paul Graham asked why models are great at math yet mediocre at writing. The answer: verifiable right/wrong labels. explainx.ai founder @goyashy replies with the writing-side trap — models re-crawling AI slop, including “anti-slop” content — and what builders should do next.
- Claude Fable 5 on Max & Team Premium, Code Limits Extended Through August 31 →
Anthropic's July 18 double announcement — Fable returns to Max and Team Premium July 20, Claude Code limits boosted — has now been extended a second time, through August 31, with Anthropic saying it hopes to make the higher limits permanent. explainx.ai tracks both cliffs.
- “Programming Is Low-Intelligence Work” — kache’s X Debate Explained (July 2026) →
RL researcher kache (@yacineMTB) sparked a Saturday X firestorm at 7:49 AM: maybe programming is a low-intelligence waste of human time. explainx.ai founder @goyashy pushed back — programming is a creative language. Replies split across bottleneck, nihilism, and shareholder-value camps. Here is the debate decoded.
- Top 10 AI Workshops for Professionals in 2026: Complete Comparison Guide →
Top 10 AI workshops for professionals in 2026 compared by cost, duration, format, and ROI — from Claude for Work to Wharton, MIT Sloan, and Stanford.
- Build Full Stack Websites with Claude AI: Step-by-Step Tutorial 2026 →
Build professional full-stack websites using Claude AI without deep coding knowledge. This comprehensive tutorial covers vibe coding methodology, Claude Projects and Artifacts, React components, database setup, API integration, and deployment strategies for 2026.