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 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.
Nov 25, 2025 • 1h 39min
Chinese Models! Preview of the Great MCP Debate
Today we finally talk about all the Chinese LLM companies that you should know about. We preview the Great MCP Debate with Allie, and discuss all the AI news.
Nov 11, 2025 • 1h 33min
Does MCP Suck? TSAI Conf Recap, Ismail from Superagent
Today we talk about MCP and about all the recent online conversations around how much it sucks. We discuss the TypeScriptAI Conf, have Ismail from Superagent join us, and do all the normal AI news.
Nov 10, 2025 • 1h 9min
Is TypeScript the King of AI? Plus CopilotKit, TSAI Preview, and Mastra Agent Studio
Is TypeScript the new King of AI? Today we talk about Mastra Agent Studio, we discuss the AI news (including a bunch of new models), chat with Atai from CopilotKit, and then preview the TSAI Conf (sold out but you can attend virtually, go to tsconf.ai to register)


