AI Agents Hour — May 2025

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.

May 12, 2025

#4

Farmers over Principal engineers, AI News, Guardrails

Today we question the path of going from principal engineer to farmer, we talk through AI News such as the new AG-UI protocol, we meet with Ward and Nik from Mastra, and we experiment with adding Guardrails to the Mastra framework.

May 9, 2025

#3

MCP, David Cramer from Sentry, A2A, Dave Yen from Orange Collective

Today we talk MCP, building MCP Servers, we talk with David from Sentry about their MCP Server, we preview A2A within Mastra, and discuss a use case for Mastra with Dave Yen from Orange Collective.

May 8, 2025

#2

Building an image to price agent

Today we walk through how we would go about building a simple example agent that takes in an image and returns a price for how much the product in the image is worth.

May 7, 2025

#1

An AI Agent that Creates AI Agents

Today we begin building an AI agent to create AI Agents using Mastra.