AI Agents Hour
Mastra
The AI Agents show that discusses hot topics in the world of AI, talks with guests building AI agents and applications, and shows the actual code of how AI applications are being built today. Hosted by Shane Thomas and Abhi Aiyer from Mastra.
Live on Youtube and X on Monday at 12PM pacific time. Watch the video versions on Spotify or YouTube.
Live on Youtube and X on Monday at 12PM pacific time. Watch the video versions on Spotify or YouTube.
Episodes
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Jan 31, 2026 • 1h 11min
Mastra 1.0 Recap, Today I learned, ClawdBot, and the news!
They recap the Mastra 1.0 launch and how the launch video pipeline was built. They dig into agent skills, rapid prototyping with agents, and rising tools for browser automation and video. They cover the Claudebot viral trend, security risks of public agent deployments, and data showing agents now dominate docs traffic.

Jan 31, 2026 • 1h 57min
Announcing Mastra 1.0, Kyle from ElectricSQL, Security Corner & News
Kyle Matthews, Chief Product Officer at ElectricSQL and former Gatsby contributor, discusses Durable Streams and real-time sync foundations. He explains use cases, protocol design, demos, and durable sessions. The show also covers security risks from AI-generated code and practical sandboxing and permission strategies. Finally, a rapid roundup of the week’s major AI industry moves and product news.
Jan 15, 2026 • 1h 14min
Emerging Agent Primitives, Anthropic ships, Google+Apple
The discussion launches into the fascinating world of emerging agent primitives, where agents become the primary users of tools. They explore infinite agent loops and the nuances of durable workflows. The implications of Google's and Apple's new partnership are dissected, especially concerning cloud technology. Insightful talk on AI's transformation in healthcare and the open-sourcing of engineering agent blueprints further captivates. Additionally, the hosts delve into the economic disruptions caused by agents in software development.
Jan 6, 2026 • 1h 16min
Ralph Wiggum, Opencode, AI News, can everyone be a developer?
Who is Ralph Wiggum and why are developers talking about him? We also discuss the rise of opencode and if everyone can be a developer now. And of course, we cover all the latest in AI news.
Jan 5, 2026 • 1h 54min
Rebuilding Git in a weekend, 2025 AI Recap & 2026 AI Predictions
Join the conversation as one host hilariously recounts his holiday attempt to rebuild Git from scratch. They reflect on the monumental events in AI throughout 2025, including a deep dive into model releases and transformation in coding tools. Additionally, the hosts boldly predict the evolution of memory features and agent capabilities for 2026. From hiring trends at NVIDIA to the vibrant ecosystem of open-source innovations, this discussion is a treasure trove for tech enthusiasts!
Dec 23, 2025 • 1h 53min
Skills the new MCP? Prompt Caching + Compression, Guest from Morning Brew
Are Agent Skills going to be the new MCP? Today we do a deep dive discussion on Prompt Caching as well as compression. We cover all the latest AI news and finally have a guest from Morning Brew join the show.
Dec 23, 2025 • 1h 59min
GPT 5.2, OWASP agentic top 10, guests from Roark & Foundry
Today we talk about GPT 5.2, Claude Code updates, and all the other AI news. On top of that we cover the OWASP agentic top 10 with Allie and have guests from Roark and Foundry join the show.
Dec 15, 2025 • 1h 47min
Evals + Observability, Agent deployments, and AI News
Today we talk with some guests (Alex from Mastra & Laurie from Arize) about evals and observability. We chat with Lio and Kevin from Defang about deploying agents to AWS/GCP/Azure. And of course we cover all the latest AI news
Dec 8, 2025 • 1h 24min
Parallel CLI Agents, Slash Commands, Opus 4.5, and more models
We talk with a special guest about running parallel CLI coding Agents. Abhi goes into depth on slash commands he is using as well as a general Opus 4.5 review. There are a ton of new models (including some new video models) that we will chat about!
Nov 25, 2025 • 2h 19min
Opus 4.5 vs Gemini 3, Agents in Slack, Phone a Farmer, Tony from Runloop - 50th episode!
It's a showdown between Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3! Today we discuss our first impressions, what we are hearing, and how the new models stack up on the benchmarks. In the future, will there agents in every slack? How is the Mastra v1 coming along? What other AI news is going on? Abhi and Shane talk with others from the Mastra team to find out! We also chat with Tony from Runloop.


