Agents Hour

Shane and Abhi welcome Charlie Holtz from Conductor to AI Agents Hour. Charlie shares how frustration with managing multiple Claude Code instances led to building Conductor. They discuss Conductor's July 2025 launch as the first agent orchestration Mac app, early design choices, and its impact on the market. Charlie outlines a future in which agents run 10x longer and require less supervision, along with new tools such as Kanban boards and a CEO dashboard. The conversation covers multi-agent coordination, designing for both humans and AI, and the importance of user feedback. Watch a live demo showcasing Conductor's parallel agents, code review, GitHub integration, and continuous deployment with GitHub Actions and Vercel. They also explore ways to keep users within the app while allowing flexibility, code-editing strategies, and upcoming remote workstation support. AI Agents Hour is a weekly livestream hosted by Mastra CPO Shane Thomas and CTO Abhi Aiyer. Airing Mondays at 12PM Pacific on YouTube and X, the show covers breaking AI news, agent development techniques, and features interviews with industry experts building AI applications today. 🧰 RESOURCES MENTIONED https://www.conductor.build/ 📚 MASTRA RESOURCES Mastra: https://mastra.ai Learn Mastra in the world's first MCP-Based Course: https://mastra.ai/course Principles of Building AI Agents (Book): https://mastra.ai/book Patterns for Building AI Agents (New Book): https://mastra.ai/blog/patterns-book https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSduJjc515f6RZJqtkR2ByqJZrB0iP8B7SUKnjjZE9IajH_I8w/viewform MASTRA? Mastra is an open-source TypeScript framework designed for building and shipping AI-powered applications and agents with minimal friction. It supports the full lifecycle of agent development—from prototype to production. You can integrate it with frontend and backend stacks (e.g., React, Next.js, Node) or run agents as standalone services. If you’re a JavaScript or TypeScript developer looking to build an agentic or AI-powered product without starting from first principles, Mastra provides the scaffolding, tools, and integrations to accelerate that process. 00:00 Origin Story of Conductor 01:07 Launch and Early Positioning in the Orchestration Space 01:50 The Future 02:46 Autonomous Work and Multi-Agent Coordination 03:39 Designing for Both Humans and AI 04:03 User Education and Feedback Loop 04:48 Live Demo 06:17 Multi-Tasking and Workspace Management 07:31 Code Review and Pull Requests 09:21 Integration and Continuous Deployment Features 10:00 Keeping Users Within the Application 10:35 Editing Code: Directly or with AI? 11:44 Current Integrations and Future Plans

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 describes his own job being automated in real time, has reached 84 million views. Anthropic raised $30 billion at a $380B valuation (one of the largest private raises in tech history). Claude Sonnet 4.6 launched with a 1M token context window. And the Chinese model tsunami is real: Qwen 3.5, GLM 5.0, MiniMax M2.5 (nearly Opus-level at 1/8 the cost), and DeepSeek v4 rumors. We also cover Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro, WebMCP native browser support in Chrome 146, OpenAI's agent workflow tips, Peter Steinberger joining OpenAI, Lyria 3 music generation, Kimi Claw integration, and the explosion of agent platforms (Oz, Browserbase Functions, and a former GitHub CEO raising $60M for "version control for agents"). Plus: Real production stats from Ramp (57% of merged PRs from background agents), Letta's context repositories, and why Mastra's Observational Memory is becoming the reference implementation for agent memory. 🧰 RESOURCES MENTIONED Matt Shumer's article: https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2021256989876109403 Anthropic $30B raise: https://x.com/anthropicai/status/2022023155423002867 Claude Sonnet 4.6: https://x.com/claudeai/status/2023817132581208353 OpenAI agent tips: https://x.com/openaidevs/status/2021725246244671606 Gemini 3.1 Pro: https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2024516665740833156 WebMCP in Chrome 146: https://x.com/chromiumdev/status/2022363079976034455 Ramp production stats: https://x.com/rahulgs/status/2020984194038628832 AI Agents Hour is a weekly livestream hosted by Mastra CPO Shane Thomas and CTO Abhi Aiyer. Airing Mondays at 12PM Pacific on YouTube and X, the show covers breaking AI news, agent development techniques, and features interviews with industry experts building AI applications today. 📚 MASTRA RESOURCES Mastra: https://mastra.ai Learn Mastra in the world's first MCP-Based Course: https://mastra.ai/course Principles of Building AI Agents (Book): https://mastra.ai/book Patterns for Building AI Agents (New Book): https://mastra.ai/blog/patterns-book https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSduJjc515f6RZJqtkR2ByqJZrB0iP8B7SUKnjjZE9IajH_I8w/viewform MASTRA? Mastra is an open-source TypeScript framework designed for building and shipping AI-powered applications and agents with minimal friction. It supports the full lifecycle of agent development—from prototype to production. You can integrate it with frontend and backend stacks (e.g., React, Next.js, Node) or run agents as standalone services. If you’re a JavaScript or TypeScript developer looking to build an agentic or AI-powered product without starting from first principles, Mastra provides the scaffolding, tools, and integrations to accelerate that process. CHAPTERS 00:00 – Intro 00:17 – Something Big Is Happening 02:34 – Anthropic's $30B Funding Round 03:14 – Claude Sonnet 4.6 Release 04:19 – GPT-5.3-Spark 06:42 – OpenAI's Tips for Long-Running Agent Workflows 07:20 – Peter Steinberger (OpenClaw) Joins OpenAI  09:06 – Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Launch 10:21 – WebMCP in Chrome 146: Native Agent Support 12:39 – Lyria 3: AI Music Generation 14:00 – Qwen 3.5 14:16 – GLM 5.0 & MiniMax M2.5 Released 15:48 – DeepSeek v4 Rumors: 10-40x Lower Inference Costs 16:15 – Kimi Claw 17:01 – Oz: Orchestrate Agents in the Cloud 17:10 – Browserbase Functions: Lambda with a Browser 17:41 – Intent 17:41 – Former GitHub CEO's $60M seed round 20:11 – Lab 20:43 – Ramp's 57% PR Stat 20:52 – Letta Context Repositories & Memory Subagents 21:10 – More Observational Memory 22:20 – Markdown from any website 22:34 – Tavily joins Nebius 22:53 – Ghost, the first database designed for agents 23:21 – Outro

Tyler Barnes, founding engineer at Mastra and creator of Observational Memory, explains a human-inspired memory system for AI that compresses conversations into dense, cacheable observations. They cover how it beats semantic recall, the reflector and observation mechanics, LongMemEval results, integration tips, and real-world benefits like stability and cost savings.

They race through the week’s AI showdowns, comparing Opus 4.6, GPT-5.3-Codex, and model benchmark differences. They unpack Anthropic’s Super Bowl ad sparks and marketplace security after a major malware find. They spotlight Kimi K2.5’s surge, ElevenLabs’ big funding, and the rapid rise of AI video tools like Seedance 2.0. They also note Perplexity’s multi-model ideas and new open model releases.

Kiet Ho, cofounder of Superset and builder of a terminal-focused platform for managing Git worktrees and multi-agent workflows. He traces Superset's growth from worktree management to file editing, automation, and cloud support. Kiet demos spinning up many parallel agents, MCP auto-creating workspaces, and UX choices for managing dozens of concurrent workflows.

Shane and Abhi cover this week's top AI developments. The OpenClaw agent goes viral amid growing security concerns over its shifting identity. Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5 ties for first place on Design Arena. Google DeepMind unveils Project Genie, advancing world model technology. Anthropic previews a new model and explores AI coding with Claude Cowork plugins. Plus, updates on developer tools, humanoid robots, and emerging AI models.

They recap the Mastra 1.0 launch and how the launch video pipeline was built. They dig into agent skills, rapid prototyping with agents, and rising tools for browser automation and video. They cover the Claudebot viral trend, security risks of public agent deployments, and data showing agents now dominate docs traffic.

Kyle Matthews, Chief Product Officer at ElectricSQL and former Gatsby contributor, discusses Durable Streams and real-time sync foundations. He explains use cases, protocol design, demos, and durable sessions. The show also covers security risks from AI-generated code and practical sandboxing and permission strategies. Finally, a rapid roundup of the week’s major AI industry moves and product news.

The discussion launches into the fascinating world of emerging agent primitives, where agents become the primary users of tools. They explore infinite agent loops and the nuances of durable workflows. The implications of Google's and Apple's new partnership are dissected, especially concerning cloud technology. Insightful talk on AI's transformation in healthcare and the open-sourcing of engineering agent blueprints further captivates. Additionally, the hosts delve into the economic disruptions caused by agents in software development.

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 course, we cover all the latest in AI news.