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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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.
November 11, 2025
#48
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.
November 5, 2025
#47
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)
October 27, 2025
#46
Mega Guest Episode! Databricks, CodeRabbit, MongoDB & Osmosis
Today we have 4 guests joining in! We have Andre from Databricks/Neon, Erik from CodeRabbit, Gaurab from MongoDB, and Professor Andy from Osmosis. We also highlight some of the recent AI news from the last few days. This includes model provider updates, Vercel workflows, and even some AI music.