AI Agents Hour — May 2025
Watch and listen to past episodes, breaking AI news, guests from the industry, and technical deep dives on building AI agents.
May 28, 2025
#17
Voice agents with Roark, AI video editing with Mosaic, YC X25, AI news, we build a livestream agent
Today we talk with Daniel and James from Roark, chat with Adish from Mosaic, discuss YC X25 companies, review some AI news, and try to build a livestream agent to streamline my post livestream workflows.
May 27, 2025
#14
Is Claude a Nark? Stagehand, OpenAI Codex, and Operator using o3
Today we look at the Claude 4 system prompt, discuss if Claude is a Nark and will call the police on you, try out OpenAI Codex, and talk with Anirudh from Stagehand.
May 27, 2025
#15
Markus from CopilotKit, Building Automations, and Meeting more Mastras
Today we discuss some AI news, meet with Markus from CopilotKit, Meet some Mastras, finally Abhi and Marvin will build some automations
May 23, 2025
#13
Claude 4, Linear for Agents, Meet the Mastras, and Building Guardrails
Today we check in with some AI news that covers Claude 4 and Linear for Agents. We also chat with Tony and Taofeeq from Mastra. Finally, Ward and Abhi work on input/output processors (guardrails) in Mastra.
May 22, 2025
#12
AI in Education with Chris from Launch School, Google I/O review, Jeff from Knock, Security Corner
Today we discuss AI in education with Chris Lee from Launch School. We review the AI news specifically around Google I/O. We talk with Jeff from Knock, and have a security corner with Allie where we discuss MCP tool poisoning.
May 21, 2025
#11
Build an MCP Server, Hamburger wheels with Veo 3, Couchbase, Vinicious from Perflab, and AI News
Today we check out Google's new Veo 3 model in their Flow product, we talk with Shivay from Couchbase, we learn about AI application architecture and look at code with Vinicious from Perflab, we chat with Dero from the Mastra team, and continue building an MCP Server with Mastra.
May 20, 2025
#10
Google analytics agent, Reinforcement learning algorithms, building an MCP Server, and some AI News
Today we talk about AI news such as Jules from Google and the SDK for Claude Code. We talk about an example Google Analytics Agent that Paul from Mastra built, we learn more about LM and Reinforcement learning algorithms from Andy Lyu from Osmosis, and try to build an MCP Server with Mastra.
May 19, 2025
#9
Children's story time, Mastra playground/cloud, workflow streaming, breaking changes, MS Build news
Today we talk through some AI news with a focus on the MS Build conference, we take a look at the Mastra playground, Mastra cloud, and workflow streaming, and we talk through some Mastra breaking changes that are coming up soon. Finally, we end with children's storybooks... or at least how we can build a storybook generator with AI.
May 16, 2025
#8
Bananas, Pigs, and Muscle - Hackathon results, Regina from Dex, Erik from Pig, and some AI news
Today we talk through some AI news, we discuss the MASTRA.BUILD hackathon results, we chat with Regina Lin from Dex about another hackathon coming up, and we learn about Pig plus a new open source project called Muscle Memory from Erik Dunteman.
May 15, 2025
#7
NextJS & Mastra, Security Corner, AI-generated stories, AI in spreadsheets, tweet helper agent
Today we talk about how to build Agents with NextJS and Mastra, we discuss AI security with Allie Howe, we talk with hackathon guests about AI-generated family stories and AI spreadsheet transformation, and finally talk with Shreeda from the Mastra team about content engineering and a tweet-helper agent.
May 14, 2025
#6
MCP.Run, Smithery, Build a startup research agent, Principles of Building AI Agents Book
Today we build a startup research agent with the help of Steve from MCP.run, we talk with Mastra co-founder and author of Principles of Building AI Agents, and we chat with Henry from Smithery.
May 13, 2025
#5
Mastra Hackathon, Performance AI tool, Sales compensation agent
Today we talk about the MASTRA.BUILD Hackathon, we discuss workflows vs. agents, we bring on a hackathon participant to show of a web performance AI tool and finally work with a community member to build a sales compensation agent with Mastra.