Agents Hour
Episodes
NVIDIA GTC, The Death of MCP, and AI Agents Are Hiring Humans - This Week in AI
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Shane hosts this week's news from his usual studio while Abhi joins remotely from NVIDIA GTC 2026 in San Jose. Jensen Huang's keynote set the tone: NV...
Meta Acquires Moltbook, Openai Releases GPT 5.4, TypeScript Is #1 on GitHub (This Week In AI)
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A lot happened in eight days. Meta acquired Moltbook, a social network built entirely for AI agents, not humans. OpenAI dropped GPT-5.4 Thinking a...
The Biggest Threat to AI Agents (with Ismail Pelaseyed)
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ismail Pelaseyed from Superagent is back on Agents Hour, and this time he's talking about something most builders aren't thinking about yet — supply...
Missile Strikes Disrupt AWS and Claude, Anthropic Banned from US Government, Cloudflare vs Vercel
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week in AI saw geopolitical turmoil, major funding news, and a shift in software development. Missile strikes in the UAE and Bahrain disrupted AW...
How to Build Reliable AI Agents with Datasets, Experiments, and Error Analysis
01 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Yujohn from Mastra explains why datasets and experiments are essential for building production-grade AI agents. If you're building an agent, you need ...
A Coding Agent That Never Compacts
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Abhi walks through Mastra Code, a new open-source coding agent with observational memory that compresses context without losing it. When we built Obse...
AI NEWS: Stripe's Minions, Distillation Attacks on Claude, Cloudflare's Code Mode
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Shane and Abhi break down the biggest AI news from the past few days. Anthropic identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on Claude by DeepSe...
How to Orchestrate Coding Agents with Conductor, with Charlie Holtz
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Shane and Abhi welcome Charlie Holtz from Conductor to AI Agents Hour. Charlie shares how frustration with managing multiple Claude Code instances led...
AI NEWS - Something Big is Happening: Gemini 3.1 Pro, GPT-5.3-Spark, and Anthropic $30B fundraise
21 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It's time for another AI News roundup with Shane and Abhi! This week was absolutely massive. Matt Shumer's viral article about AI automation, which de...
Observational Memory: The Human-Inspired Memory System for AI Agents, with Tyler Barnes
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Tyler Barnes, founding engineer at Mastra, introduces Observational Memory. It is a new memory system for AI agents that achieves state-of-the-art res...
AI NEWS - Model Wars: Opus 4.6 vs GPT-5.3-Codex + Seedance 2.0 Redefines AI Video
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Shane and Abhi cover top AI stories. This week was absolutely massive! Anthropic aired Super Bowl ads mocking OpenAI's decision to put ads in ChatGPT,...
Running 100 AI Agents in Parallel: Superset Cofounder Kiet Ho
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Shane and Abhi welcome Kiet Ho, cofounder of Superset, to discuss how Superset evolved from simple WorkTree management into a full-featured tool with ...
AI News: OpenClaw Drama, Google DeepMind's Project Genie, Kimi K2.5
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Shane and Abhi cover this week's top AI developments. The OpenClaw agent goes viral amid growing security concerns over its shifting identity. Moonsho...
Mastra 1.0 Recap, Today I learned, ClawdBot, and the news!
31 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today we discuss the Mastra 1.0 launch, we talk about the things we are learning, we discuss ClawdBot (renamed to MoltBot and now OpenClaw). We also d...
Announcing Mastra 1.0, Kyle from ElectricSQL, Security Corner & News
31 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today we announce Mastra is officially 1.0! We talk with Kyle from ElectricSQL (and formerly Gatsby) about Durable Streams. Allie joins us to discuss ...
Emerging Agent Primitives, Anthropic ships, Google+Apple
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 prima...
Ralph Wiggum, Opencode, AI News, can everyone be a developer?
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 cour...
Rebuilding Git in a weekend, 2025 AI Recap & 2026 AI Predictions
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 2...
Skills the new MCP? Prompt Caching + Compression, Guest from Morning Brew
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
GPT 5.2, OWASP agentic top 10, guests from Roark & Foundry
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 gues...
Evals + Observability, Agent deployments, and AI News
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Parallel CLI Agents, Slash Commands, Opus 4.5, and more models
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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....
Opus 4.5 vs Gemini 3, Agents in Slack, Phone a Farmer, Tony from Runloop - 50th episode!
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ben...
Chinese Models! Preview of the Great MCP Debate
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Does MCP Suck? TSAI Conf Recap, Ismail from Superagent
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Sup...
Is TypeScript the King of AI? Plus CopilotKit, TSAI Preview, and Mastra Agent Studio
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 fr...
Mega Guest Episode! Databricks, CodeRabbit, MongoDB & Osmosis
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Spies among us? OpenAI Atlas, Veo 3.1, Vibe Coding Gemini, Claude Skills and more
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we have a mega AI news day with a ton of new things to talk about. We talk veo 3.1, vibe coding with Gemini, Claude skills & memory, OpenAI ...
Mastra fundraise, Is Lovable Dying? Superagent, Ragie, and more AI news
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we have guests from Superagent and Ragie. We highlight the Mastra fundraise, talk about Lovable, and give our take on AI music. Finally we answe...
OpenAI Dev Day recap and guests from Netlify and Weaviate
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI Dev Day Recap, AI news, Sean from Netlify, and Daniel from Weaviate!
Mastra Model Routing, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Sora 2, and all the other AI news
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI Engineer Paris Recap, Mastra Model Routing, and all the crazy AI news from the last two weeks (such as the Sonnet 4.5 and Sora 2 releases)
Live from AI Engineer Paris!
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are in Paris at the AI Engineer conference. Learn a bit about what we are seeing on the ground floor and hear from some of the people at the event....
Replit's Agent 3, Mastra Templates, Security Issues, and AI News
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Special EU edition stream! Agent 3, Mastra Templates, Security Issues, AI News
To Eval or Not to Eval, Massive JavaScript vulnerability, Corbin from Artifact, AI News
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There was a lot of hate for Evals last week... so should you be using Evals in your AI project? We talk about a massive JavaScript supply chain attack...
Going (Nano) Bananas, AI's Axis of Evil, Waffle AI, an MCP Course Platform, and more news
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The AI world is going bananas over Nano Banana, so we start by discussing Google's new update. We have a few guests including Manuj from Waffle AI and...
95% of AI projects fail? AI News and guests Sherwood Callaway and Richard from Naptha AI
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A recent report says that 95% of generative AI pilots are failing! We have a few guests including Richard from Naptha AI and Sherwood Callaway. We tal...
The Goose is Loose! Plus Hackathon Awards, Cedar OS, Security Corner, and AI News
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we review more Mastra Templates Hackathon submissions and give out the rest of the awards! We have guests from Cedar and Vapi. We talk Security ...
Mastra Templates Hackathon Awards, GPT-5, OpenAI OSS models, and AI news
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we review some Mastra Templates Hackathon submissions and give out some awards! We will discuss the OpenAI launches last week (GPT-5 and OSS mod...
Hackathon Updates, Guests from Oso, Confident AI, and Smithery, along with AI News
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we check in on the Mastra Templates Hackathon, a few of the judges will stop by (Smithery, Confident AI)! We chat with Oso security and, as alwa...
Mastra Templates Hackathon, Claude Code is King, and Guests from WorkOS, Recall.network, Clinicamind
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we kick-off the Mastra Templates Hackathon by talking about the categories, prizes, and judges. A few of the judges stop by (WorkOS and Recall)!...
Agent Memory, LongMemEval, Goal Manipulation, Memory Poisoning, and all the AI News
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we go deep on Agent Memory and discuss how Mastra scored on the LongMemEvals benchmark. We will do Security Corner with Allie and discuss Goal M...
Builders Learn ML, AI News (Grok 4, Windsurf, AI browsers), Mastra Updates and the 8 second ad era
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we do another edition of "builders learn ML" with professor Andy from Osmosis. We talk AI News (including the Windsurf/Grok 4 news), Mastra upda...
WTF is the ”Eval Loop” - Evals Deep Dive, AI News, and Mastra Docs with Paul
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we talk AI News, we get some Mastra Docs updates from Paul, and we do a deep dive on Evals. In our deep dive we talk about common questions when...
Matt from Netlify, Arize conference update, Mastra Speed Run, and AI News with Tyler
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Abhi gives us an update from the Arize conf last week, we do a Mastra speed run, we talk some AI news, and Matt from Netlify joins us.
AI Code Editors, AI Security with Rene from Casco, Alexandra from CutzAI, and all the AI news
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss our favorite AI code editors, chat with Rene from Casco and Alexandra from CutzAI, and finish up talking about all of the AI News from the ...
Multi-agent systems, edge functions support, security corner, and AI News
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss AI News, AI Startup School, have security corner with Allie, discuss multi-agent systems, and talk about Supabase edge function support in ...
A ”Course” as an MCP Server, Lauren from Ampersand, and AI News
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss AI News, talk about the first ever "course" as an MCP server, and finally chat with Lauren from Ampersand about their MCP server that unloc...