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Agents Hour

Mastra
Mastra
Openai
Anthropic
MCP
Conductor
NVIDIA
Observational Memory
Maastra
Evals
Superset
Claude
Sazabi
Ito.ai
Typescript
Supply Chain Security
Superagent
Datasets
Error Analysis
Claude Opus 4.6
Gpt-5.3-Codex

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.Watch the livestream on Youtube and X on Monday at 12PM pacific time. Watch the video versions on Spotify or YouTube.

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Big week. OpenAI had a security incident, where a model reportedly broke out of its evaluation parameters and hacked Hugging Face — and the guardrails on OpenAI's and Anthropic's own models blocked responders from investigating, so they had to fall b... more

Ivan Leo works on Developer Experience at Google DeepMind. He joins Shane Thomas and Abhi Aiyer to demo what he has been building on Gemini and to answer the question Google keeps getting asked: is Gemini actually a coding model?

Every demo in this ... more

Shane and Abhi are live from London this week, and the big one is Kimi K3 — a 2.8 trillion parameter open frontier model with a million-token context window that lands right next to Fable 5 on the benchmarks, takes the number one spot on the front-en... more

Three model drops, a lawsuit, and a couple of genuine horror stories. Shane and Abhi cover the busiest week in a while — Grok 4.5, Meta's Muse Spark 1.1, and the one everyone actually tried, GPT-5.6 Sol.

Sol lands right around Fable on the benchmark... more

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Dexter Horthy
CEO and co-founder of HumanLayer
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Episode: The Software Factory: Dex Horthy on Shipping Fast Without AI Slop
Michael Grinich
Founder of WorkOS
WorkOS
Episode: Inside an AI-Native Company | Michael Grinich, WorkOS
Andrej Karpathy
Stanford PhD, co-founder of OpenAI, former Tesla Autopilot leader
Anthropic (joined) / OpenAI / Tesla
Episode: Karpathy Joins Anthropic, China Ships Another Price Cut, Anthropic's SpaceX Bill - This Week In AI
Evan Marshall
CTO of ito.ai, builds the verification layer for AI-generated code
ito.ai
Episode: Code Review That Actually Runs Your Code — Evan Marshall (ito.ai)
Sherwood Callaway
Software engineer and founder of Sazabi
Sazabi
Episode: Sazabi: AI-Native Observability for Fast-Moving Teams (with Sherwood Callaway)
Ismail Pelaseyed
CTO and co-founder of Superagent
Superagent
Episode: The Biggest Threat to AI Agents (with Ismail Pelaseyed)
Charlie Holtz
Episode: How to Orchestrate Coding Agents with Conductor, with Charlie Holtz
Tyler Barnes
Founding engineer at Mastra who led Observational Memory
Mastra
Episode: Observational Memory: The Human-Inspired Memory System for AI Agents, with Tyler Barnes
Kiet Ho
Co-founder of Superset
Superset
Episode: Running 100 AI Agents in Parallel: Superset Cofounder Kiet Ho

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Shane Thomas
Host of Agents Hour and Mastra co-founder
Abhi Aiyer
Co-host of the show and Mastra co-founder

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OpenAI Dev Day recap and guests from Netlify and Weaviate
Q: What is Weaviate's angle on AI infrastructure and vector databases?
Weaviate positions itself as an AI infrastructure company with a robust Go-based vector database, emphasizing flexible ingestion, retrieval, and throughput at scale. They discuss a query agent to simplify interacting with vector stores and the broader idea of context engineering as a core practice for AI apps.
OpenAI Dev Day recap and guests from Netlify and Weaviate
Q: What are Netlify's latest AI offerings and how do they empower teams?
Netlify unveiled Agent Runners to orchestrate agents on behalf of teams and the AI Gateway to simplify provisioning of inference from providers like OpenAI. They stress a strong developer experience, enabling non-developers to participate in AI-driven changes via serverless functions and automated previews.
Live from AI Engineer Paris!
Q: Satvik asks why someone should use Maastra over LangChain, particularly in JavaScript/TypeScript environments.
Abhi answers that Maastra is the better choice for JavaScript/TypeScript users due to stronger, clearer JavaScript support and a more coherent getting-started experience, including a local playground, tracing, evals, and a unified agent development environment; he also notes that LangChain's documentation can be confusing for JavaScript users, and recommends trying both to decide.
Is TypeScript the King of AI? Plus CopilotKit, TSAI Preview, and Mastra Agent Studio
Q: What is CopilotKit and how does it fit into Mastra's ecosystem?
CopilotKit provides the connective tissue between agent backends and frontends, enabling agentic applications through the AGUI protocol and a set of building blocks for generative UIs, shared state, and tool execution. It helps developers deploy and manage agent-powered apps more quickly and with richer front-end experiences.
The Software Factory: Dex Horthy on Shipping Fast Without AI Slop
Q: How does your software factory look like and how does it map onto existing engineering processes?
Dex outlines a layered workflow from input tracking (backlogs, architecture planning) through to automated testing and PR reviews, emphasizing that the outer loop (planning and review) should guide and constrain what the agents build. The goal is to shift more work upstream so PRs come in with high confidence, reducing post-merge rework.

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What is Agents Hour about and what kind of topics does it cover?

A tech-focused show about AI agents and the tooling enabling real-world deployment. Episodes frequently center on building, coordinating, and securing autonomous AI systems, with in-depth discussions of agent architecture, harness design, and production-ready workflows. Guests span AI researchers, startup founders, security experts, and software engineers who are hands-on with agent-in-a-box tooling, APIs, and developer platforms. A notable strengths are practical code discussions, live demonstrations, and a bias toward tooling and production readiness rather than purely theoretical AI. This mix makes it especially valuable for engineers, product leaders, and agencies looking to sponsor pragmatic, developer-centric AI content or to place gu... more

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