AI Agents Hour
Join Mastra cofounders Shane Thomas and Abhi Aiyer for weekly conversations about the latest in AI.
They discuss breaking AI news, chat with guests from the industry, and go deep on the technical challenges of building AI agents.
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January 14, 2026
#57
Emerging Agent Primitives, Anthropic ships, Google+Apple
Today we discuss a rising star, we talk about the emerging agent primitives, and we cover downstream effects of a world where agents are now the primary users of a lot of products/tools. We cover Anthropic news, the Google+Apple partnership, model companies going public, AI in healthcare, and much more.
January 6, 2026
#56
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.
December 29, 2025
#55
Rebuilding Git in a weekend, 2025 AI Recap & 2026 AI Predictions
Today we talk about how Abhi tried to rebuild Git over the holiday weekend. We also review everything that happened in the world of AI and agents in 2025. Finally, we give our 2026 predictions for what we think will happen next year.
December 22, 2025
#54
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.
December 15, 2025
#53
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.
December 8, 2025
#52
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
December 1, 2025
#51
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!
November 25, 2025
#50
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.
November 17, 2025
#49
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.