Agents Hour
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Jensen should have watched our show - This Week In AI
Jensen should have watched our show - This Week In AI
About this podcast
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.
Live on Monday at 12PM pacific time.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 100 episodes
- Jensen should have watched our show - This Week In AI · 23 min · Episode 126Jensen Huang's internal apology memo leaked, admitting an affair, and NVIDIA's board has opened an independent investigation into the national security concerns raised in news…
- Your UI is hiding security holes · 18 min · Episode 125An AI agent got its user banned from Resy after firing off around 200 booking requests an hour. As more apps go headless and agents sign up, browse and call APIs for you, the…
- Anyone can hack anything now! (This Week In AI) · 35 min · Episode 124Security had a rough week. Two old PHP bugs combined into a critical remote code execution flaw that leaked before the patch; GitLab disclosed a 12-year-old hole in self-managed…
- AGI was achieved on a Zoom call · 21 min · Episode 122Brad Leford has been building software for 20 years and now spends most of his time helping small businesses figure out AI. His new side project, Plum, is a video calling app…
- Le Chonk! Also: Espionage at OpenAI · 31 min · Episode 123OpenAI found a recording device hidden in one of its offices and traced it back to an employee. Meanwhile the model releases kept coming: Mistral Large 4 aka Le Chonk, Claude…
- AI broke CI. Now what? · 17 min · Episode 121AI agents write code faster than CI can check it. GitHub reports a 4x jump in Actions minutes since 2023, and Anthropic says CI became its biggest bottleneck after job volume…
- Is Google finally back? (This Week In AI) · 35 min · Episode 120Anthropic's IPO prospectus leaked, showing a $2 trillion valuation target on $4.6 billion in revenue, with a quarter of that coming from two customers. Google is back in the…
- OpenAI DevDay: Worth the Hype? · 23 min · Episode 119OpenAI DevDay 2026 happened, so Shane and Abhi jumped on a special live episode of Agents Hour to go through everything that was announced and share their takes. The big launch…
- Opus 5.5 launches: is Anthropic back? · 32 min · Episode 118Anthropic might be back. Opus 5.5 performs at Fable 5.1 level for 40% less, and Sonnet 5.5 dropped the same day we went live, beating Opus on Terminal-Bench 4. OpenAI answered…
- Should You Train Your Own Model? · 24 min · Episode 117Welcome back to Builders Learn ML with Professor Andy! In this episode we're talking about training your own AI models. Should you train your own model? Maybe. But probably not…
- We Tried Jev To See If It's Any Good - This Week In AI · 31 min · Episode 116This week, X could not stop talking about Jev, a viral new "decision model" that hit 38 million views on launch. Shane and Abhi break down what it actually is, and Abhi builds…
- "Do You Think AI Is Gonna Kill Us?" | This Week In AI · 28 min · Episode 115This week AI doom went mainstream, and Shane and Abhi spend most of the show untangling it. Live from San Diego, they trace how one post racked up 171 million views plus a WSJ…
- Why Your AI Agent Gets Brain Damage, and How to Fix It - Tyler Barnes, Mastra · 23 min · Episode 114Tyler Barnes is a founding engineer at Mastra and the person behind its memory systems. In this chat with Shane, he explains observational memory - Mastra's fix for the thing…
- GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Fable 5.1, We Should Pause AI & The Benchmark Wars | This Week In AI · 27 min · Episode 113GPT-6 Astra is finally here, and it changes what a model launch even looks like. Shane and Abhi open on the trailer for "Artificial" (Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman, in theaters…
- Multiplayer Coding Agents in the Cloud - Charlie Holtz, Conductor · 18 min · Episode 112"Code is almost like the sawdust of the conversation." Charlie Holtz, co-founder and CEO of Conductor (YC S24), returns to Agents Hour to show how far coding agents have come in…
- OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor, Nvidia Buys Hugging Face, Ox Alpha is GLM | This Week In AI · 26 min · Episode 111Someone became worth $2.5 billion in a week, and that's just the warm-up. Shane and Abhi open on the drama of the week: OpenAI cutting off Cursor after its acquisition by SpaceX…
- Why Agents Are Actually Workflows - Tony Kovanen, Mastra's Founding Engineer · 15 min · Episode 110What if agents and workflows aren't two different things — but the same thing? Abhi sits down with Tony Kovanen, Mastra's founding engineer, live in London, to explore the ideas…
- The 0x-alpha Mystery, Qwen's 27B Beats Opus 4.8 & Legal Is AI's Breakout · 24 min · Episode 109A shorter but juicy one. Shane and Abhi open on the debate everyone's having — do you want to use your agent to reach into someone else's tool, or do you want that tool to build…
- The Three Ways AI Agents Fail in Production | Hendrix Liu, Respan · 16 min · Episode 107What does it actually take to run AI agents reliably in production? Hendrix Liu, co-founder of Respan (formerly Keywords AI, YC W24), joins Shane and Abhi to break it down…
- Stripe Buys OpenRouter for $7B, New Models Drop & Anthropic Watermarks AI | This Week In AI · 29 min · Episode 108Money is moving, models are dropping, and GitHub's status page looks like a Christmas tree. Shane and Abhi open on the week's most-shared joke — the SF founder who realized his…
