technology
Hosted by Mastra · technology · EN · 98 episodes
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.
Required Pod Score for this show. PitchCentric checks your profile against host openness, topical fit, and audience signals before you generate a pitch.
Contact path
Verified email
Booking probability
34%
Guest openness
Selective
Sign up to generate a grounded pitch for Agents Hour.
Signup to Generate a PitchThe 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.
Agents Hour is hosted by Mastra. The show has published 98 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "AGI was achieved on a Zoom call" (20 October 2026, 21 minutes), "Le Chonk! Also: Espionage at OpenAI" (16 October 2026, 31 minutes), and "AI broke CI. Now what?" (9 October 2026, 17 minutes).
Agents Hour publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 24 minutes across 98 episodes.
Booking probability for Agents Hour is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Agents Hour requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Agents Hour's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Agents Hour are IT Services & Software Development and Cloud, Data & Web Hosting. Agents Hour has a technology audience.
Mastra hosts Agents Hour, a technology show with 98 episodes published.
Our AI reads these to draft pitches. Use them as grounding for a pitch that cites a real guest and a specific topic.
Episode #122
Brad 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 built for teams and AI agents. Any agent...
Episode #123
OpenAI 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 Haiku 5.5, Meta's Muse Wonder and Gemini 4...
Episode #121
AI 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 grew 25x in six months. Daniel Worku...
Episode #120
Anthropic'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 frontier race with Gemini 4 Argon, which tops...
Episode #119
OpenAI 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 is Dots, OpenAI's always-on personal...
Episode #118
Anthropic 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 with GPT-6 Sol and Luna and a rumored...
Episode #117
Welcome 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 yet. If you haven't nailed your prompts...
Episode #116
This 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 with it live in seven demos. Jev is not an...
Episode #115
This 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 exclusive that ran before the post itself...
Episode #114
Tyler 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 every coding agent does where it fills up...
Episode #113
GPT-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 Christmas), then get into the launch...
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 just a few months. Conductor started as a...
Episode #111
Someone 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, telling the team direct access to its...
Episode #110
What 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 behind Mastra's design. Tony co-created...
Episode #109
A 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 best agent and meet you where you...
Episode #107
What 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. Respan is a one-stop LLM engineering platform...
Episode #108
Money 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 best friend was "emotionally attached to a...
Episode #106
Git wasn't built for AI agents — so Ben Warren's team rebuilt the file system from scratch. Ben Warren, co-founder and CTO of Mesa (YC S24), joins Shane and Abhi to explain why the file system is the missing primitive...
Episode #105
An AI agent hacked a gym — and that's not even the biggest story of the week. Shane and Abhi open on Australia's first known autonomous AI cyberattack, where a Melbourne man's OpenClaw agent found a hole in a gym's...
Episode #104
Isabelle Ilyia, co-founder and CTO of Cedar (YC W25), joins Shane and Abhi to demo Cedar Copilot — the AI-native "Superhuman for sales," built on Mastra from day one. Cedar started as an open-source framework for...
Recent guests on Agents Hour. Study who booked and why before you pitch.
PitchCentric classifies Agents Hour under these industries. Guests from them are the closest fit, and each links to the best podcasts in that industry.
Is this podcast yours and you'd like to remove or correct details? Request removal or email privacy@pitchcentric.com.
Questions about the free trial? See the pricing FAQ