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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.

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  • #102
    August 4 · 18 min· Video

    Freestyle's CEO Runs His Cloud From a House — Ben Swerdlow on Agent VMs

    Ben Swerdlow is CEO and co-founder of Freestyle, which builds Linux VMs for AI agents. He joins Abhi Aiyer to explain why he refuses to call them sandboxes. Freestyle runs on bare metal in a house. There is duplicated internet, a battery, a backup kerosene generator, a fingerprint-protected door, and a hole cut in a wall. The move followed a $45,000 cloud bill and the discovery that an old computer outperformed the cloud version of an early prototype. Ben's advice to most of the audience is not to use his product. But he draws the line at execution time and names the case where a sandbox is simply the better tool. His path to VMs ran through two abandoned products. A database engine built at Apple in evenings and carried through an entire YC batch was killed in November 2024 after an early o3 demo. A serverless JavaScript runtime with 10ms cold starts came next, and nobody wanted it. You'll also learn why Freestyle moved off Firecracker and what rust-vmm makes possible, the destructive-snapshot problem that caused Ben real pain, and why stripped-down kernels break on Supabase. 📎 READ MORE Freestyle: https://www.freestyle.sh Freestyle VMs: https://www.freestyle.sh/products/vms Ben on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benswerdlow rust-vmm: https://github.com/rust-vmm/community 📚 MASTRA RESOURCES https://mastra.ai https://x.com/mastra_ai Discord: https://mastra.ai/community/discord GitHub: https://github.com/mastra-ai Learn Mastra: https://mastra.ai/learn Principles of Building AI Agents: https://mastra.ai/books/principles-of-building-ai-agents Patterns of Building AI Agents: https://mastra.ai/books/patterns-of-building-ai-agents WHAT IS 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. AI Agents Hour is a weekly livestream by Mastra CPO Shane Thomas and CTO Abhi Aiyer. Mondays 12PM Pacific. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:00 Cold open 00:32 Ben Swerdlow, Freestyle 00:45 Why "sandbox" is the wrong word 00:58 The serverless JavaScript runtime nobody wanted 01:35 Apple, YC, and the database they killed 03:11 Running server racks in a house 05:43 What it takes to operate that 07:20 Agent VM vs. sandbox 08:07 Background agents and the 8GB ceiling 10:13 Firecracker, rust-vmm, and destructive snapshots 12:01 Demo 14:02 Networks and VPN APIs 16:22 Who should not use Freestyle 17:09 Virtualizing themselves on every PR 7:28 What Ben would tell you to build for

  • #101
    July 30 · 28 min· Video

    Opus 5 vs Fable, Rogue Model Hacks Hugging Face & the Open Weights Letter | This Week In AI

    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 back to an open model to get to the bottom of it. Opus 5 lands close to Fable at 26% lower cost and tops the front-end arena, but the reviews are mixed, and the token usage is brutal — one chart clocks it at 97 million tokens on a task GPT 5.6 did in 4.3 million. Then the fight everyone's watching: NVIDIA, OpenAI, and a hundred others sign an open-models letter, Anthropic declines and calls for mandatory safety testing, and the room asks the obvious question — who gets to write the test? Plus MCP goes fully stateless (it's basically a REST API now), Kimi K3 weights drop with a K3.1 leak, SSI partners with NVIDIA, Stripe eyes OpenRouter for $10B, Cognition buys Poke, and DoorDash announces drone delivery — so your agent really can order you pizza by helicopter. AI Agents Hour is a weekly livestream by Mastra CPO Shane Thomas and CTO Abhi Aiyer. Mondays 12PM Pacific. 📚 READ MORE Anthropic destroyed the books (Project Panama): https://x.com/HedgieMarkets/status/2081534588485296565 OpenAI security incident: https://x.com/sama/status/2079661132302995790 Claude Opus 5 launch: https://x.com/claudeai/status/2080699495453528290 Opus 5 tops the front-end arena: https://x.com/arena/status/2081831019377004727 Opus 5 intelligence & cost: https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2080734447717298483 Siqi Chen walks it back: https://x.com/blader/status/2082275046937292859 Theo on Opus 5: https://x.com/theo/status/2081880182936502474 The token-usage chart: https://x.com/jpschroeder/status/2081751862768717956 Jensen's open-models letter: https://x.com/JensenHuang/status/2080643682408321103 Denny's stays open: https://x.com/dennysdiner/status/2081069889931112816 Anthropic declines to sign: https://x.com/anthropicai/status/2081864750296658008 MCP goes stateless: https://x.com/claudedevs/status/2082164248697069935 Kimi K3 weights are out: https://x.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/2081760186235289764 Kimi K3.1 leak: https://x.com/Mr_Salio/status/2081345681734713635 SSI x NVIDIA: https://x.com/ssi/status/2081732119194394763 Stripe eyes OpenRouter: https://x.com/andrewcurran_/status/2080397684134007189 Notion as Code: https://x.com/notionhq/status/2080331924732850687 Cognition acquires Poke: https://x.com/cognition/status/2080311229256540194 ChatGPT Voice on desktop: https://x.com/openai/status/2080378182469857576 DoorDash Air: https://x.com/DoorDash/status/2082451101840740753 📚 MASTRA RESOURCES Mastra: https://mastra.ai Mastra on X: https://x.com/mastra_ai Mastra Discord: https://mastra.ai/community/discord Mastra GitHub: https://github.com/mastra-ai Learn Mastra: https://mastra.ai/learn Principles of Building AI Agents (Book): https://mastra.ai/books/principles-of-building-ai-agents Patterns for Building AI Agents (New Book): https://mastra.ai/books/patterns-of-building-ai-agents WHAT IS 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 Cold open 00:27 Welcome 00:34 Anthropic destroyed the books ("Operation Panama") 02:32 The OpenAI security incident: a model hacked Hugging Face 04:35 Opus 5 launches — is it better than Fable? 05:46 The mixed reviews 07:05 Opus 5 is token-hungry 08:17 The open-models letter: who writes the safety test? 10:03 Anthropic declines to sign 13:35 The 1,200-employee "pacing" statement 15:28 Trump's China AI advisors 15:48 Be a guest on the show 16:03 MCP is not dead, it's just stateless now 22:24 Quick hits: Kimi K3 weights & the K3.1 leak 23:11 SSI + NVIDIA 23:43 Stripe eyes OpenRouter for $10B 24:24 Notion as Code 25:28 Cognition acquires Poke 25:59 ChatGPT voice & the beach test 27:14 DoorDash Air: pizza by drone 28:10 Outro

  • #100
    July 29 · 17 min· Video

    Is Gemini Actually a Coding Model? Google DeepMind's Ivan Leo Answers

    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 episode runs on Gemini 3.5 Flash. Gemini Managed Agents was the first product Ivan took from first commit to launch. One API call opens the same Antigravity harness Google runs internally and provisions a persistent Linux sandbox. On stream, it builds a NotebookLM-style podcast generator from a one-line prompt, with native text-to-speech. You'll also see a one-shot Windows XP clone, with an animated Clippy and a working Tamagotchi, as well as demos of Gemini Omni, the conversational video model Ivan's team describes as Nano Banana for video. You'll also hear which everyday errand finally made Ivan feel the AGI. Google's internal token consumption has been doubling every few weeks. Ivan was previously a core contributor to Instructor and built knowledge agents at Manus before its acquisition by Meta. 📎 READ MORE Ivan Leo: https://ivanleo.com Ivan on X: https://x.com/ivanleomk Gemini Managed Agents: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/managed-agents-gemini-api/ Gemini Omni Flash: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-omni-flash fofr on X: https://x.com/fofrAI 📚 MASTRA RESOURCES Website: https://mastra.ai X: https://x.com/mastra_ai Discord: https://mastra.ai/community/discord GitHub: https://github.com/mastra-ai Learn Mastra: https://mastra.ai/learn Principles of Building AI Agents: https://mastra.ai/books/principles-of-building-ai-agents Patterns of Building AI Agents: https://mastra.ai/books/patterns-of-building-ai-agents WHAT IS 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. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:00 Cold open 00:19 Welcome, Ivan Leo 00:48 Instructor, Manus, and the road to DeepMind 02:54 What actually shipped at I/O 03:32 Launching Gemini Managed Agents 04:03 3.2 quadrillion tokens a month 04:44 Answering the "DeepMind is cooked" post 05:57 Why Google Search came back 06:45 Antigravity: CLI, app, and IDE 07:31 Gemini Omni, or Nano Banana for video 09:38 Demo: one-shot apps on Gemini 3.5 Flash 10:51 The errand that felt like AGI 11:08 Demo: Managed Agents building a NotebookLM clone 13:13 Is Gemini a coding model? 14:54 Learning the temperament of a new model 15:47 Prediction: agents in everyday life 17:01 Where to find Ivan

  • #99
    July 24 · 27 min· Video

    Is Ramp an AI Company Now? Plus Kimi K3 Beats Fable on Front-End | This Week In AI

    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-end Code Arena, and reportedly doubles Fable's performance on legal tasks. Then demand got so heavy Moonshot had to pause new subscriptions. Also this week: Anthropic scrambles to keep Fable in Max and Team plans, an Opus 5 leak, and the distillation debate — if you paid for the output, whose data is it? Plus Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement, Grok Build going open source, Thinking Machines' Inkling, three new Gemini models that land with a thud, and Ramp shipping Ramp Router — which prompts Shane's bold call that Ramp is about to become an AI company with a fintech arm, not the other way around. Then DoorDash ships a CLI for your agent, and everyone argues about what a "factory engineer" actually is. AI Agents Hour is a weekly livestream by Mastra CPO Shane Thomas and CTO Abhi Aiyer. Mondays 12PM Pacific. 📚 READ MORE Kimi K3 launch: https://x.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/2077830229968683203 Kimi K3 on Artificial Analysis: https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2077832874183860404 Number one on the front-end arena: https://x.com/arena/status/2077824029126504525 Kimi K3 on legal tasks: https://x.com/nrehiew_/status/2077782070785634767 Open weights coming (Yulun Du): https://x.com/yulun_du/status/2077831915999228192 Pausing new subscriptions: https://x.com/kimi_moonshot/status/2078855608565207130 Fable stays in Max & Team plans: https://x.com/claudeai/status/2078302415804379218 Opus 5 leak: https://x.com/vral/status/2079267940021477864 The distillation debate: https://x.com/pankajkumar_dev/status/2079288624928158160 Grok Build goes open source: https://x.com/spacexai/status/2077494535387828644 Thinking Machines' Inkling: https://x.com/thinkymachines/status/2077454609551921208 Three new Gemini models: https://x.com/Google/status/2079589747366724030 Ramp Router: https://x.com/andyfang/status/2077516962515599799 DoorDash CLI: https://x.com/denisewu/status/2077984660211269870 Build your own CLI from network requests (Dax): https://x.com/thdxr/status/2078727284865827140 OpenShip: https://x.com/openshipio/status/2078143909125923137 AI SDK for Python: https://x.com/1st1/status/2078393737407848683 What the devil is a factory engineer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd6ltKUcp9U Yardarm, an Electron app for Mastra Code: https://github.com/JJJ-Mo3/yardarm 📚 MASTRA RESOURCES Mastra: https://mastra.ai Mastra on X: https://x.com/mastra_ai Mastra Discord: https://mastra.ai/community/discord Mastra GitHub: https://github.com/mastra-ai Learn Mastra: https://mastra.ai/learn Principles of Building AI Agents (Book): https://mastra.ai/books/principles-of-building-ai-agents Patterns for Building AI Agents (New Book): https://mastra.ai/books/patterns-of-building-ai-agents WHAT IS 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 Cold open 00:27 Welcome — live from London 01:08 Kimi K3: 2.8T parameters, open frontier intelligence 02:57 Number one on the front-end arena 04:25 Kimi K3 doubles Fable on legal tasks 05:07 Demand breaks capacity: subscriptions paused 05:53 What is Alibaba Cloud, and why speed matters 07:13 Fable stays in Max & Team plans 07:56 The Opus 5 leak 08:32 The distillation debate: whose data is it? 12:54 Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement 13:34 Be a guest on the show 13:48 Grok Build goes open source 14:37 Thinking Machines' Inkling & the fine-tuning future 16:09 Three new Gemini models (and a sick dark horse) 18:44 Is Ramp an AI company? Ramp Router & the pivot call 21:53 Will our agents order us pizza? DoorDash CLI 23:07 Build your own CLI from network requests 23:54 Quick hits: OpenShip & AI SDK for Python 24:21 What the devil is a factory engineer? 26:31 GitHub star party: Yardarm 27:02 Outro

  • #98
    July 15 · 35 min· Video

    Three Models Drop: Grok 4.5, Meta Muse & GPT-5.6 Sol (Which Nuked a Business) | This Week In AI

    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 benchmarks at a third the price, and the receipts are wild: it beats Fable on cost in real usage, tops the Code Arena front-end board — and, in a few now-infamous posts, deleted someone's Mac files and canceled every active Stripe subscription a business had while its owner slept. Meanwhile Anthropic extends Fable again (compute crunch and all), Apple sues OpenAI over trade secrets in the same 24 hours OpenAI's head of safety quit, China floats restricting its open models, and the "own your stack" argument gets a Satya Nadella cosign. Plus software factories at Uber and Sierra, Cognition's SWE-1.7, Bun rewritten in Rust, TypeScript 7, 1X's eerily good robot hands, and distilling your own small model with Inference Autotune. AI Agents Hour is a weekly livestream by Mastra CPO Shane Thomas and CTO Abhi Aiyer. Mondays 12PM Pacific. 📚 READ MORE Grok 4.5 (Elon): https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2074740539874775163 Grok dumping repo data: https://x.com/XBToshi/status/2076338252051841512 Muse Spark 1.1 (Zuckerberg): https://x.com/finkd/status/2075218444056707458 GPT-5.6 launch: https://x.com/openai/status/2074704958419792299 Mitchell Hashimoto's verdict: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2074862990214787301 Sol vs Fable cost (Dax): https://x.com/thdxr/status/2075963734745342361 Code Arena front-end #1: https://x.com/arena/status/2075672492312768683 Sol deleted my Mac files: https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2075657271401390161 Sol canceled every Stripe sub: https://x.com/bridgemindai/status/2074604410727288974 Apple sues OpenAI: https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2075680682844569993 OpenAI's brutal 24 hours: https://x.com/katiemiller/status/2075996304883265935 Fable extended to July 19: https://x.com/claudeai/status/2076351399999557669 China may restrict its models: https://x.com/jukan05/status/2074443936865960205 Uber's agentic pods: https://x.com/praveenTweets/status/2074605343439810922 Harness benchmarks (Ali Ghodsi): https://x.com/alighodsi/status/2074996561306955958 Cognition SWE-1.7: https://x.com/cognition/status/2074882968770728416 Bun rewritten in Rust (Jarred): https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/2074973674332123157 TypeScript 7: https://x.com/typescript/status/2074892178745327926 1X's Neo hands: https://x.com/1x_tech/status/2075252899442204952 Satya's reverse information paradox: https://x.com/satyanadella/status/2076323181154230284 Notion ShipOS: https://x.com/NotionHQ/status/2075249002208227743 Inference Autotune (Sam Hogan): https://x.com/samhogan/status/2076044602554159240 📚 MASTRA RESOURCES Mastra: https://mastra.ai Mastra on X: https://x.com/mastra_ai Mastra Discord: https://mastra.ai/community/discord Mastra GitHub: https://github.com/mastra-ai Learn Mastra: https://mastra.ai/learn Principles of Building AI Agents (Book): https://mastra.ai/books/principles-of-building-ai-agents Patterns for Building AI Agents (New Book): https://mastra.ai/books/patterns-of-building-ai-agents WHAT IS 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 Cold open 00:30 Welcome & London next week 01:48 Grok 4.5: benchmarks, data grabbing & ZDR 04:51 Meta's Muse Image & Muse Spark 1.1 07:21 GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra & Luna 10:38 The cost picture: Sol vs Fable 11:51 Sol's horror stories: deleted files & canceled subs 13:43 Subscribe break 13:53 GPT Live, Apple sues OpenAI & a brutal 24 hours 16:06 Fable extended — can Anthropic even drop it? 19:17 The Anthropic backlash 20:25 China restricts models, Z.ai chips & MiniMax M3 Pro 21:42 Software factories: Uber, Sierra & the harness 24:55 Cognition's SWE-1.7 25:19 Bun rewritten in Rust & the "asshole reviewer" 28:32 Quick hits: TypeScript 7 & 1X's Neo hands 29:48 Satya's "reverse information paradox" 31:35 Notion ShipOS 32:25 Inference Autotune 34:49 Outro

  • #97
    July 9 · 25 min· Video

    Is Sonnet 5 Even Worth It? Plus: Fable's Back, and War on Tokenmaxxing | This Week In AI

    Anthropic lived rent-free in everyone's feed this week. Claude Sonnet 5 launched as "the most agentic Sonnet yet" — and within 24 hours, the government lifted the export controls on Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Shane and Abhi unpack both, plus the catch: Fable came back wrapped in new classifiers that quietly fall it back to Opus for coding, and it's coming off subscription plans on July 7. That kicks off the routing wars — Devin Fusion, sidekick, mid-session routing — and a real question: if you're already using Fable to plan and something cheaper to code, you're the router. Then a stacked week of open and Chinese models (ZCode for GLM-5.2, DeepSeek V4's peak-hour pricing, Tencent's Hunyuan HY3), new inference silicon from Etched and Cerebras, an agent-memory result showing 5x more solved tasks, and the sleeper hot take: Palantir's "AI Sovereignty" manifesto and its shot at tokenmaxxing. Plus agentcn's Mastra recipes, Anthropic's own chip talks, and Anthropic's new "global workspace" research. AI Agents Hour is a weekly livestream by Mastra CPO Shane Thomas and CTO Abhi Aiyer. Mondays 12PM Pacific. 📚 READ MORE Claude Sonnet 5: https://x.com/claudeai/status/2072017450611142835 "Opus 4.8 is cheaper and better": https://x.com/Angaisb_/status/2072017407653060848 Export controls lifted: https://x.com/anthropicai/status/2072106151890809341 Fable back, with new classifiers: https://x.com/anthropicai/status/2072163884430229756 Fable off subscriptions July 7: https://x.com/trq212/status/2072814903170408784 Devin Fusion: https://x.com/cognition/status/2071624568465490170 Sidekick & mid-session routing: https://x.com/walden_yan/status/2071627241818399181 ZCode for GLM-5.2: https://x.com/zai_org/status/2072349453361557898 DeepSeek V4 & peak pricing: https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/2071537369631625608 Tencent Hunyuan HY3: https://x.com/TencentHunyuan/status/2074148098876768478 Etched out of stealth: https://x.com/Etched/status/2071972062202343590 Gemma 4 31B on Cerebras: https://x.com/cerebras/status/2071776102633410684 Observational memory, 5x solves: https://x.com/hampsonw/status/2071728496909643917 Understand the code (Geoffrey Litt): https://x.com/geoffreylitt/status/2072522251300409556 Palantir's AI Sovereignty: https://x.com/PalantirTech/status/2072114267776491695 Primeagen's co-sign: https://x.com/ThePrimeagen/status/2072679880626512256 agentcn Mastra recipes: https://x.com/alaymanguy/status/2073500711737008270 Anthropic's chip talks: https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2072685149708300360 Supermemory local: https://x.com/supermemory/status/2072086481997537301 Vercel + Shopify rebuild Hydrogen: https://x.com/vercel/status/2072041488012439803 "Th..thanks Dario": https://x.com/aljosa/status/2072175046324277644 📚 MASTRA RESOURCES Mastra: https://mastra.ai Mastra on X: https://x.com/mastra_ai Mastra Discord: https://mastra.ai/community/discord Mastra GitHub: https://github.com/mastra-ai Learn Mastra: https://mastra.ai/learn Principles of Building AI Agents (Book): https://mastra.ai/books/principles-of-building-ai-agents Patterns for Building AI Agents (New Book): https://mastra.ai/books/patterns-of-building-ai-agents ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:00 Cold open 00:29 Welcome 01:08 Claude Sonnet 5 — and the Opus 4.8 counter 04:04 Fable's export controls lifted (and the coding catch) 05:51 Daily-driving Fable & the July 7 subscription cliff 08:07 The routing wars: Devin Fusion & mid-session routing 09:45 OSS & China: ZCode, DeepSeek V4, Hunyuan HY3 11:57 Inference hardware: Etched & Cerebras 12:58 Agent memory: 5x more solves 14:40 You still have to understand the code 16:18 Tokenmaxxing & Palantir's AI Sovereignty 20:57 agentcn's Mastra recipes & Anthropic's chip talks 21:40 Supermemory local & Vercel/Shopify Hydrogen 22:11 The "Thanks Dario" meme 22:29 Anthropic's "global workspace" research 23:57 Outro

  • #96
    July 7 · 22 min· Video

    The Software Factory: Dex Horthy on Shipping Fast Without AI Slop

    Dex Horthy has spent the past year studying what happens to a codebase when you let AI write all of it and stop reading the output. His answer has a name: slop. And it's not just about sloppy prompting. In this episode, the HumanLayer founder Dex Horthy joins Shane and Abhi to draw the software factory on a whiteboard — the whole pipeline that builds the thing that builds the thing — and show exactly where teams tear out the parts that were holding quality up. He moves from the naive factory to the fully agentic one to the "lights-off" version where humans stop reading code entirely, then explains why that dream quietly rots a codebase after three to six months. Dex, Shane, and Abhi also talk about how coding models are trained. Every benchmark rewards one thing: did the test pass? Nowhere in the loop does a model get punished for leaving behind code that a smaller model, or a human six months later, can't work in. That gap is why architecture planning, sprint planning, and code review still can't be skipped. You'll also hear why you're not drowning in PRs so much as drowning in bad ones, what a longer-horizon benchmark that actually catches slop would look like, and how many times Dex has watched the HumanLayer launch film. 🔗 DEX HORTHY / HUMANLAYER Dex on X: https://x.com/dexhorthy HumanLayer: https://humanlayer.dev AI Agents Hour is a weekly livestream by Mastra CPO Shane Thomas and CTO Abhi Aiyer. Mondays 12PM Pacific. 📚 MASTRA RESOURCES Mastra: https://mastra.ai Mastra on X: https://x.com/mastra_ai Mastra Discord: https://mastra.ai/community/discord Mastra GitHub: https://github.com/mastra-ai Learn Mastra: https://mastra.ai/learn Principles of Building AI Agents: https://mastra.ai/books/principles-of-building-ai-agents Patterns for Building AI Agents: https://mastra.ai/books/patterns-of-building-ai-agents WHAT IS 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. CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold open 0:14 Bringing on Dex Horthy 1:16 The HumanLayer launch film 3:31 Cutting through the AI hype 4:07 Defending the terms that matter 5:26 "I want to build a software factory" 5:58 What a software factory actually is 9:08 Agentic code review, testing, and feedback loops 13:35 The lights-off software factory 14:32 Why code quality decays over time 15:36 What RL actually rewards 17:29 Don't sacrifice planning or review 18:05 Getting the PR to 95% before review 19:21 Drowning in bad PRs, not PRs 20:22 Building longer-horizon benchmarks 21:46 Trying HumanLayer

  • #95
    July 2 · 22 min· Video

    GPT-5.6 Needs Government Approval Now, npm Finally Gets More Security, and Fable Returns | This Week In AI

    GPT-5.6 is here — Sol, Terra, and Luna — but for the first time, the US government decides who gets access, approving customers one by one. Shane and Abhi dig into what that precedent means for competition, open models, and every lab that comes next. Then a stacked week: OpenAI's own Jalapeño chip, open models pushing hard (Qwen AgentWorld, DeepSeek DSpark, Hermes mixture-of-agents), the model-routing wave (AI SDK 7, Devin Fusion), Claude Tag's viral moment and the Trojan-horse worry, voice agents on Vercel, Coinbase on keeping AI spend flat, a16z's $200M "seed" for Mirendil, npm finally freezing accounts after the Axios and Mastra attacks, Meta's think-to-text Brain2Qwerty, the DevRel Google fired over a viral CLI, and Fable's return after 15 days offline. AI Agents Hour is a weekly livestream by Mastra CPO Shane Thomas and CTO Abhi Aiyer. Mondays 12PM Pacific. 📚 READ MORE GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna: https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2070555272230384038 Restricted rollout: https://x.com/steph_palazzolo/status/2070241787180966279 Jalapeño chip: https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2069770172802773292 Qwen AgentWorld: https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2069720365442719867 DeepSeek DSpark: https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/2070928299744972814 Hermes Mixture of Agents: https://x.com/NousResearch AI SDK 7: https://x.com/vercel/status/2070155382488764566 Devin Fusion: https://x.com/cognition/status/2071624568465490170 Tau harness: https://x.com/_alejandroao Claude Tag (Karpathy): https://x.com/karpathy Claude Tag Trojan horse: https://x.com/ashwingop Open Tag: https://x.com/ataiiam GLM-5.2 in the wild: https://x.com/cline/status/2069171146994729078 Local 1-bit GLM: https://x.com/UnslothAI/status/2069418532375564484 Coinbase on AI spend: https://x.com/brian_armstrong Coinbase gateway: https://x.com/markletree Exa Connect: https://x.com/ExaAILabs/status/2069842203577651283 Mirendil $200M: https://x.com/a16z/status/2069869327411749012 npm account freeze: https://x.com/AikidoSecurity Brain2Qwerty: https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/2071566924803395741 Google Workspace CLI: https://x.com/JPoehnelt 📚 MASTRA RESOURCES Mastra: https://mastra.ai Mastra on X: https://x.com/mastra_ai Mastra Discord: https://mastra.ai/community/discord Mastra GitHub: https://github.com/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/books/principles-of-building-ai-agents Patterns for Building AI Agents (New Book): https://mastra.ai/books/patterns-of-building-ai-agents WHAT IS 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 Cold open: npm finally freezes accounts 00:29 Welcome 00:37 GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, Luna — and government-gated access 04:25 OpenAI's Jalapeño chip 05:34 Open models: Qwen AgentWorld, DeepSeek, Hermes MoA 07:11 AI SDK 7 07:43 Devin Fusion & the model-routing wave 10:26 Harness interop: OpenCode & LangChain 11:01 Tau harness 11:26 Claude Tag's viral moment & the Trojan horse 12:49 Open Tag 13:12 Voice agents land on Vercel 13:53 The infra bill: Coinbase on keeping AI spend flat 15:15 Exa Connect & a16z's $200M "seed" 16:32 npm freezes accounts 18:08 Meta's Brain2Qwerty: think-to-text 19:11 Google fired its viral CLI star 21:48 Fable returns 22:00 Outro

  • #94
    June 26 · 18 min· Video

    Mastra Got Hacked. Here's What We Learned

    Mastra got hacked. In this special edition of Security Corner, Shane Thomas and Abhi Aiyer break down exactly what happened when a supply chain attack hit Mastra's npm packages — an attack that appears to trace back to hackers in North Korea. They're joined by Ismail Pelaseyed, co-founder and CTO of Superagent, for the outside view on how these campaigns actually work. You'll hear how a single, ordinary-looking call turned into a full npm account takeover, the small oversight that turned a scare into a genuine crisis, and why a malicious package was still live on the registry weeks after it was reported. Ismail makes the case that getting hacked is a side effect of success — and that the real problem runs deeper than any one team. You'll learn why he thinks npm and PyPI have dropped the ball on security, how AI now lets attackers one-shot a convincing phishing app, and what every maintainer should be doing to harden their pipeline before a trusted contributor becomes the way in. It's the unfiltered version, told by the people who lived through it. Connect with Ismail Pelaseyed: https://x.com/pelaseyed https://superagent.sh Connect with the hosts: https://x.com/smthomas3 https://x.com/abhiaiyer 📚 MASTRA RESOURCES https://mastra.ai https://x.com/mastra_ai https://mastra.ai/community/discord https://github.com/mastra-ai https://mastra.ai/course https://mastra.ai/books/principles-of-building-ai-agents https://mastra.ai/books/patterns-of-building-ai-agents 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. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro: a special Security Corner 0:55 The supply chain attack on Mastra 1:29 How they got in: a fake Teams call 2:27 The npm account takeover 3:54 EasyDjS and the scramble to fix it 5:49 Why success makes you a target 9:20 How AI supercharges phishing 9:59 Hardening against compromised contributors 11:10 Open source under strain: IBM's $5B bet 12:27 npm and PyPI keep dropping the ball 14:31 Inside the fake package, and how Socket caught it 16:20 The fear-selling problem in security 18:02 Superagent!

  • #93
    June 25 · 20 min· Video

    GPT-5.5 Beats Fable, Cursor Takes On GitHub & Midjourney Scans Your Body | This Week in AI

    Fable is gone, and the race to replace it is already on. Shane and Abhi open with the fallout — reports that Mythos breached classified NSA systems, the ID-verification future that may follow, and David Sacks' "you asked for it" take. Then the story flips: OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Cyber lands state-of-the-art on Cyber Gym, beating Fable and Mythos on the underlying benchmarks, with OpenAI Daybreak shipping alongside it. GPT-5.6 leaks, then slips to mid-July. GLM 5.2 arrives near Opus 4.8, tops Design Arena, and runs on a Mac. Cursor goes after GitHub with Origin, adds mobile and its own frontier model on Colossus after the SpaceX deal closes. Vercel ships Eve, Fred Schott counters with Flue, Claude lands in Slack, and Midjourney — yes, the image company — unveils a full-body medical scanner headed for spas. AI Agents Hour is a weekly livestream by Mastra CPO Shane Thomas and CTO Abhi Aiyer. Mondays 12PM Pacific. 📚 READ MORE The Fable story, Mythos & the NSA: https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2068605229965234238 GPT-5.5 Cyber beats Fable (Sam Altman): https://x.com/sama/status/2069121360744550796 OpenAI Daybreak: https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2069104283824640023 GPT-5.6 leak (Mark K): https://x.com/mark_k/status/2069169916432003105 GPT-5.6 delayed: https://x.com/synthwavedd/status/2069432791184650426 GLM 5.2 (Z.ai): https://x.com/zai_org/status/2066938937344495629 GLM 5.2 tops Design Arena: https://x.com/Designarena/status/2066940737011560652 GLM 5.2 vs Opus (Cline): https://x.com/cline/status/2069171146994729078 1-bit GLM 5.2 runs local (Unsloth): https://x.com/UnslothAI/status/2069418532375564484 Cursor Origin: https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/2069149296436330776 Cursor Compile keynote: https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/2067012220832329782 Swyx on Origin: https://x.com/swyx/status/2066928345246470204 Vercel Eve: https://x.com/vercel/status/2067180054979936413 Flue 1.0 (Fred Schott): https://x.com/FredKSchott/status/2066962296119959581 Codex record-replay to skills: https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2067681320281723113 Claude Tag in Slack: https://x.com/claudeai/status/2069468693017268244 Replit in Slack: https://x.com/Replit/status/2067661213278900402 Midjourney Medical: https://x.com/midjourney/status/2067421950314688759 Sakana Fugu: https://x.com/SakanaAILabs/status/2068861630327443966 📚 MASTRA RESOURCES Mastra: https://mastra.ai Mastra on X: https://x.com/mastra_ai Mastra Discord: https://mastra.ai/community/discord Mastra GitHub: https://github.com/mastra-ai Principles of Building AI Agents (Book): https://mastra.ai/books/principles-of-building-ai-agents Patterns for Building AI Agents (New Book): https://mastra.ai/books/patterns-of-building-ai-agents WHAT IS 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 Cold open 00:30 Welcome 01:02 Fable fallout: did Mythos breach the NSA? 03:10 GPT-5.5 Cyber beats Fable & OpenAI Daybreak 05:23 GPT-5.6 delayed, Gemini 3.5 Pro slips 05:52 GLM 5.2: near-Opus, and it runs on a Mac 09:52 Subscribe break 09:55 Cursor's Origin takes on GitHub 11:12 Cursor mobile, frontier model & the SpaceX deal 11:52 Vercel's Eve, Flue & Codex skills 13:48 Claude Tag & Replit in Slack 14:57 Midjourney goes medical: full-body scanners 16:42 Sakana Fugu & the rise of model routing 19:37 Outro

  • #92
    June 24 · 19 min· Video

    How AI Broke Open Source Security | Security Corner with Ismail Pelaseyed

    Open source is under attack, and AI changed the math. In this Security Corner, Ismail Pelaseyed, co-founder and CTO of Superagent, joins Shane and Abhi to break down how the software supply chain became the soft underbelly of everything we build. An attack that once took an army of researchers and weeks of work now takes about an hour, and the attacker no longer needs a frontier model to pull it off. Ismail traces how most breaches begin, why phishing has become almost impossible to spot, and how a single poisoned dependency can cascade across an entire ecosystem. You'll get concrete steps any maintainer or developer can take today: switching package managers, enabling the security scanners that ship for free, and standing up an adversarial agent that hunts for chained exploits before an attacker finds them. Ismail also warns that the same instincts protecting enterprises may be quietly strangling open source itself. You'll hear why he thinks the big registries have dropped the ball, what a "Darwinian GitHub" would mean for anyone shipping a new package, and the one move he believes can keep the ecosystem alive. Superagent: https://superagent.sh Superagent on X: https://x.com/superagent_ai Superagent on GitHub: https://github.com/superagent-ai pnpm: https://pnpm.io Socket: https://socket.dev 📚 MASTRA RESOURCES Mastra: https://mastra.ai Mastra on X: https://x.com/mastra_ai Discord: https://mastra.ai/community/discord GitHub: https://github.com/mastra-ai Free course: https://mastra.ai/course Principles of Building AI Agents: https://mastra.ai/books/principles-of-building-ai-agents Patterns of Building AI Agents: https://mastra.ai/books/patterns-of-building-ai-agents WHAT IS 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. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold open 0:21 What is Superagent 0:53 How AI sped up attack timelines 2:14 Why phishing is the way in 4:35 Outdated CI/CD workflows 6:04 Two defenses: CI/CD checks and switching to pnpm 7:18 The risk hiding in skills and agents 8:11 Should you delay installing new packages? 8:54 The Darwinian GitHub threat to open source 9:55 Why supply chain attacks are so popular 11:34 Will companies abandon open source? 13:53 Why Ismail is frustrated with GitHub and npm 14:32 Practical defenses for maintainers 18:12 Where to find Superagent

  • #91
    June 18 · 37 min· Video

    Claude Fable 5: Launched, Hyped, Banned by the Government | This Week In AI

    Fable came and went in a week. Shane and Abhi break down the strangest model launch yet — Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model Anthropic said was too capable to release widely, until a US export-control directive made it vanish for everyone. We cover the whole arc: the launch hype, the pricing that had people spending $1,000 a day, the silent fallbacks to Opus, the system-prompt leak, and the snitch that triggered a 90-minute shutdown. Then a stacked back half — China's open-weight surge, OpenRouter Fusion, loop engineering vs loopcraft, the agent-learning gold rush, OpenAI filing to go public, and Dario's new essay. AI Agents Hour is a weekly livestream by Mastra CPO Shane Thomas and CTO Abhi Aiyer. Mondays 12PM Pacific. 📚 READ MORE Claude Fable 5 launch: https://x.com/claudeai/status/2064394146916229443 Pokémon beaten with vision: https://x.com/Baconbrix/status/2064418858073784530 Export-control announcement: https://x.com/anthropicai/status/2065597531644743999 Amazon/WSJ report (Theo): https://x.com/theo/status/2065665304882209132 David Sacks on the ban: https://x.com/davidsacks/status/2065853007619588171 Token capital (Satya Nadella): https://x.com/satyanadella/status/2066182223213293753 Siri as a harness (Weinbach): https://x.com/mweinbach/status/2065630219021492474 MiniMax M3 open weights: https://x.com/minimax_ai/status/2065436935188058208 GLM 5.2: https://x.com/zai_org/status/2065704919299235870 Kimi K2 Code High Speed: https://x.com/kimi_moonshot/status/2066467110960959833 Cohere North Mini Code: https://x.com/cohere/status/2064378058329526556 Gemma 4 on consumer hardware: https://x.com/unslothai/status/2065433326706684135 Diffusion Gemma: https://x.com/unslothai/status/2065107734916432189 OpenRouter Fusion API: https://x.com/openrouter/status/2065856853989270011 AI SDK harnesses (Vercel): https://x.com/vercel_dev/status/2065509970775519569 Swyx on loopcraft: https://x.com/swyx/status/2065307558198567206 OpenEnv joins Hugging Face: https://x.com/ben_burtenshaw/status/2063991191415267492 Adaline 2.0 / agent learning: https://x.com/adiix_official/status/2066172819952566643 Cognition Frontier Code: https://x.com/cognition/status/2064061031912288715 Ramp SWE-bench: https://x.com/RampLabs/status/2065485806605619304 AWS on AI-generated code: https://x.com/awscloud/status/2064449711155589396 OpenAI files to go public: https://x.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/2065088002335158753 OpenAI acquires Ona: https://x.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/2064094175541461220 Salesforce acquires Fin AI: https://x.com/fin_ai/status/2066493998852686074 Mistral in talks to raise: https://x.com/business/status/2065420995393941692 Dario's essay on the AI exponential: https://x.com/DarioAmodei/status/2064781775247950326 📚 MASTRA RESOURCES Mastra: https://mastra.ai Mastra on X: https://x.com/mastra_ai Mastra Discord: https://mastra.ai/community/discord Mastra GitHub: https://github.com/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/books/principles-of-building-ai-agents Patterns for Building AI Agents (New Book): https://mastra.ai/books/patterns-of-building-ai-agents WHAT IS 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 Cold open & welcome 00:40 Claude Fable 5: the launch and the hype 01:53 The price problem and silent Opus fallbacks 06:42 Our experience + the system-prompt leak 08:51 The 90-minute export-control shutdown 12:40 Microsoft's "token capital" & where Fable goes 17:07 Apple at WWDC: Siri as a harness 17:57 China's open models: MiniMax M3, GLM 5.2, Kimi K2 21:11 Local-first: Cohere, AMD, Diffusion Gemma 24:58 OpenRouter Fusion & AI SDK harnesses 27:07 Loop engineering, loopcraft & OpenEnv 29:09 Agent learning & new coding benchmarks 32:14 AWS, the snitch & OpenAI's IPO 33:37 Salesforce, Mistral & Le Chaton Fat 36:42 Quick hits & a Fable eulogy

  • #90
    June 11 · 24 min· Video

    Loop Engineering, OpenAI Sites & the Great China Model Shift | This Week In AI

    Shane and Abhi are in person this week — live from the CodeRabbit office — for a packed AI news rundown. The big theme: loop engineering. Boris Cherny (head of Claude Code) and Peter Steinberger both landed the same take within days — stop prompting your agents, start designing the loops that prompt them. We walk the whole evolution: the traditional loop, the Ralph loop, /goal, and Claude Code's new dynamic workflows — and debate whether "stop prompting" is real insight or just clickbait. Plus: Anthropic engineers shipping 8x more code (and the "depressed employees" reply), agentic traffic passing human traffic on the web for the first time, OpenAI's Codex Sites taking aim at Lovable, Cognition's $10M AI Productivity Guarantee and Devin Desktop, Cloudflare acquiring VoidZero, the accelerating shift to Chinese models (Lindy going 100% DeepSeek), Notion disabling Anthropic models over reliability, a big open-model dump (Gemma 4, Magenta RealTime 2, Miso One, Nemotron, Liquid, GLM 5.1, MiniMax M3), funding rounds (Suno, Supabase), Brian Chesky's new AI lab, and whether AI is actually profitable yet. Recorded live at the CodeRabbit office — thanks to the CodeRabbit team. AI Agents Hour is a weekly livestream by Mastra CPO Shane Thomas and CTO Abhi Aiyer. Mondays 12PM Pacific. 📚 READ MORE Anthropic ships 8x more code: https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2062568864240836995 "Depressed employees" reply: https://x.com/jasonbotterill/status/2062579899412713605 Bots pass humans (Matthew Prince): https://x.com/eastdakota/status/2062212701414187452 Boris Cherny on loops (via @rohanpaul_ai): https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2063289804708835412 Steipete — design loops, don't prompt: https://x.com/steipete/status/2063697162748260627 OpenAI Codex Sites: https://x.com/openai/status/2061845949170045346 Cognition AI Productivity Guarantee: https://x.com/cognition/status/2062597242167628019 Devin Desktop: https://x.com/cognition/status/2061889596703551926 Cloudflare acquires VoidZero: https://x.com/voidzerodev/status/2062520542121304146 Shift to Chinese models (Nick Thompson): https://x.com/nxthompson/status/2063712713654628549 Lindy → DeepSeek V4 (Flo Crivello): https://x.com/altimor/status/2062389885437366342 Notion disables Anthropic models: https://x.com/notionstatus/status/2063477745796161904 Gemma 4 12B: https://x.com/Google/status/2062203526588088452 Gemma 4 QAT (Unsloth): https://x.com/UnslothAI/status/2062931482746994755 Magenta RealTime 2: https://x.com/googlegemma/status/2062619217967628693 Miso One: https://x.com/aodenteomt/status/2062204362102100295 Nemotron-3.5-ASR-Streaming: https://x.com/piotrzelasko/status/2062538923776290909 Liquid LFM2.5-VL-Extract: https://x.com/liquidai/status/2062686748291846307 Baseten — GLM 5.1 at 160+ TPS: https://x.com/baseten/status/2062942929883426860 MiniMax M3 faster: https://x.com/ryanleeminimax/status/2061982791458521116 MiniMax M3 × Fireworks: https://x.com/FireworksAI_HQ/status/2062187803476111405 Brian Chesky's AI lab: https://x.com/shiringhaffary/status/2062618738881675579 Is AI profitable?: https://isaiprofitable.com/ v0 × Shopify: https://x.com/v0/status/2062859311869497355 Factory Router: https://x.com/factoryai/status/2061862733126275549 Hermes Desktop (Nous): https://x.com/NousResearch/status/2061843507417944552 ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:00 Cold open 00:36 Welcome — live from the CodeRabbit office 00:56 Anthropic ships 8x more code (and the "depressed employees" reply) 02:46 Bots pass humans: agentic traffic overtakes the web 03:17 Loop engineering: stop prompting, start designing loops 10:53 Subscribe break 11:03 OpenAI Codex Sites — is Lovable cooked? 11:56 Cognition's $10M AI Productivity Guarantee 13:21 Devin Desktop (pour one out for Windsurf) 14:03 Cloudflare acquires VoidZero 14:16 The China shift: DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, MiniMax 15:39 Notion disables Anthropic models 16:12 Model dump: Gemma 4, Magenta RT2, Miso One, Nemotron, Liquid, GLM 5.1, MiniMax M3 19:26 Funding & M&A: Suno, Supabase, SpaceX, Chesky's AI lab 21:00 Is AI profitable? 21:35 Quick hits: v0 × Shopify, Factory Router, Hermes Desktop 22:45 Outro & thanks to CodeRabbit

  • #89
    June 8 · 18 min· Video

    Inside an AI-Native Company | Michael Grinich, WorkOS

    WorkOS quietly powers the auth and enterprise layer under OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and a long list of companies building the AI era. So when its founder decides his entire company should learn to code, it's worth asking why. Michael Grinich joins Shane and Abhi to talk about what "AI-native" actually looks like from the inside — the in-house coding agent his team built instead of buying, the all-day internal hackathons, and the operating principle he now hires for: everybody codes. He shares how AI is reshaping go-to-market and not just engineering, why he braced for pushback and got the opposite, and the one trait that separates the people who thrive from the people who stall. We close on the thinking behind his Death of UI talk, and where human-computer interaction goes from here. 🔗 MICHAEL The Death Of UI https://youtu.be/azoM7uz8Jhs Michael Grinich on X — https://x.com/grinich WorkOS — https://workos.com 📚 MASTRA RESOURCES https://mastra.ai https://x.com/mastra_ai https://mastra.ai/community/discord https://github.com/mastra-ai https://mastra.ai/course https://mastra.ai/books/principles-of-building-ai-agents https://mastra.ai/books/patterns-of-building-ai-agents WHAT IS 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. CHAPTERS 0:00 "Everybody codes" 0:13 What WorkOS actually does 1:33 Inside the Applied AI showcase 2:39 Horizon, the in-house coding agent 3:49 Build it or buy it 5:50 WorkOS's marketing strategy 7:29 Getting everyone building 9:40 "We haven't found our limits yet" 11:41 You have agency to learn 13:38 Should every company build this? 16:04 The Death of UI 17:58 Where to find Michael

  • #88
    June 4 · 36 min· Video

    Opus 4.8, Anthropic's S-1, MiniMax M3 & NVIDIA Pays You to Host a Data Center | This Week In AI

    Anthropic filed to go public. The S-1 lands the same week as a $65 billion Series H at a $965 billion valuation, a claimed first profitable quarter, and a home listing that takes Anthropic stock as payment. Opus 4.8 shipped mid-week, and Shane and Abhi give the vibe check: a polish pass over 4.7 more than a step change, still trailing GPT-5.5 on DeepSWE, with GPT-5.6 spotted in Codex logs. The quieter, more interesting release: mid-conversation system messages, steering a model mid-task without breaking the prompt cache. MiniMax M3 is out, agent-tuned and long-context at a fraction of frontier pricing. NVIDIA used Computex to push AI onto the desktop with Vera, RTX Spark, and a Windows DGX Station that runs trillion-parameter models locally, plus a startup unit that bolts onto your house and pays you for compute. OpenAI brings Codex to Windows and ships private MCP servers. Claude Code's dynamic workflows get cloned by pi within a day, Devin raises $1B, and the model-vs-harness debate heats up. Plus continual learning as the next wave, a $500M accidental Claude bill, Corgi's seven-days-a-week firestorm, and a GitHub Star Party pick. 🔗 LINKS Pope on AI: https://x.com/pontifex/status/2060322763718725798 Kuzma on TBPN: https://x.com/tbpn/status/2060374399031632176 Opus 4.8: https://x.com/alexalbert__/status/2060043196655362358 Mid-conversation system messages: https://x.com/swyx/status/2060044644193624253 Opus 4.8 on DeepSWE: https://x.com/arrakis_ai/status/2060757773579956640 GPT-5.6 sighting: https://x.com/hqmank/status/2060334752369160472 Anthropic S-1: https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2061478052257841495 Series H: https://x.com/anthropicai/status/2060061347522433422 First profitable quarter: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/anthropic-says-its-about-to-have-its-first-profitable-quarter/ $500M Claude bill: https://x.com/Polymarket/status/2060034216906068131 Zillow listing: https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/2060776120380010932 Mythos class model: https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2060047510853312557 MiniMax M3: https://x.com/minimax_ai/status/2061266317815296322 Computex in 12 minutes: https://youtu.be/ugNnw4lAMWA NVIDIA Vera: https://x.com/nvidianewsroom/status/2061298380022726734 RTX Spark: https://x.com/nvidia/status/2061313474005737829 DGX Station for Windows: https://x.com/nvidianewsroom/status/2061307670607319201 Home AI data center: https://x.com/w1nklerr/status/2060091525413884408 Codex on Windows: https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2060428604727771421 Private MCP servers: https://x.com/openaidevs/status/2059703536825565499 Dynamic workflows: https://x.com/claudedevs/status/2060044853279617150 pi dynamic workflows: https://x.com/micLivs/status/2060115468531499224 Devin raises $1B: https://x.com/cognition/status/2059660758531940856 grok-build: https://x.com/xai/status/2060392249402552457 Codex as QA: https://x.com/steipete/status/2061208638027395490 Cua on Windows: https://x.com/trycua/status/2059688960838828391 Elad Gil on liftoff: https://x.com/eladgil/status/2061129428084887593 Continual learning pivot: https://x.com/swyx/status/2061206120233054327 Trajectory: https://trajectory.ai/ Motion Studio: https://x.com/_adishj/status/2059666916835463646 Koji AI tutor: https://x.com/suekhim/status/2060378988606878147 Asana acquires Stack AI: https://x.com/techcrunch/status/2060091143556395421 Corgi raises $106M: https://x.com/nico_laqua/status/2060028908704243782 Coral board with Gemma: https://x.com/googlegemma/status/2059740184930074758 Cloudflare web search: https://x.com/cherryjimbo/status/2060717359979958513 Voice-controlled computer: https://x.com/farzatv/status/2060865350036750847 rift: https://github.com/anomalyco/rift 📚 MASTRA RESOURCES https://mastra.ai https://x.com/mastra_ai https://mastra.ai/community/discord https://github.com/mastra-ai https://mastra.ai/course https://mastra.ai/books/principles-of-building-ai-agents https://mastra.ai/books/patterns-of-building-ai-agents 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. 0:00 Cold open 0:29 Welcome + last week's callbacks 2:22 Opus 4.8 5:51 Anthropic files to go public 11:33 MiniMax M3 15:23 NVIDIA at Computex 18:11 NVIDIA's home AI data center 20:32 OpenAI ships for Windows 21:15 More coding agent news 25:07 Continual learning 27:42 Quick hits 34:04 GitHub Star Party

  • #87
    May 29 · 33 min· Video

    Karpathy Joins Anthropic, China Ships Another Price Cut, Anthropic's SpaceX Bill - This Week In AI

    Shane and Abhi are back with AI news! Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic. The OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI head said he wants to "get back to R&D" at the LLM frontier. Same week, Greg Brockman posted "the model alone is no longer the product." Elon Musk announced SpaceX is offering AI compute as a service at significant scale, with Anthropic as the flagship customer. Tom Brown confirmed Anthropic is scaling on GB200 capacity in Colossus 2 through June. Anthropic is reportedly paying SpaceX $1.25B a month — a $15B run rate to one vendor. OpenAI offered $2M in tokens to every YC startup in the current batch in exchange for equity. WorkOS launched auth.md, an open protocol for agents to register for services on the web, with Cloudflare and Firecrawl as launch partners. The Chinese labs kept pushing. DeepSeek made their 75% discount permanent on V4-Pro. The architecture behind the price: V4's KV cache is 100x smaller, ~3GB VRAM for 1M tokens. Qwen shipped 3.7-Max. MiniMax teased a similar move. Anthropic shipped self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels for Managed Agents, /workflows in Claude Code that replaces the LLM orchestrator with code, /usage for per-component token attribution, and a first-party security plugin. Google had a week. Gemini 3.5 Flash launched at 3x input and 6x output the price of 3 Flash — Theo's math shows it costs 2x more to run than 3.1 Pro on similar tasks. Gemini Omni lost a side-by-side to Seedance 2.0. Jack Wotherspoon shipped Antigravity CLI, Philipp Schmid debuted Managed Agents in the Gemini API, and Google open-sourced Agent Executor. Cursor shipped Composer 2.5 and published CursorBench. Datacurve released DeepSWE as a harder agentic coding benchmark. Supply-chain attacks kept rolling: Mini Shai-Hulud hit antv, TrapDoor crypto stealers spread across npm/PyPI/Crates.io, Megalodon injected 5,718 commits into 5,561 GitHub repos in six hours, and GitHub itself disclosed unauthorized access to its internal repositories. Cloudflare published their experience running Anthropic's Mythos against 50 of their own repos. The MCP 2026-07-28 RC is stateless. ElevenLabs launched Music v2 and Speech Engine. Runway shipped Aleph 2.0. Accenture laid off 11,000 in an $865M AI restructuring. Exa raised $250M at $2.2B. OpenRouter raised $113M. 🔗 LINKS https://x.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312 https://x.com/gdb/status/2057670776803996110 https://x.com/sama/status/2056933166875857290 https://x.com/grinich/status/2057884407135187292 https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/2057854261699195173 https://x.com/teortaxestex/status/2057728159479443927 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2057228707606196434 https://x.com/pitdesi/status/2057207627567014014 https://x.com/serenaa_ge/status/2059308218564890875 https://cursor.com/evals https://x.com/claudeai/status/2056645485696315581 https://x.com/theo/status/2056877869780107762 https://x.com/JackWoth98/status/2056805210761077059 https://x.com/_philschmid/status/2056836567470362955 https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/2056415413077233983 https://x.com/cloudflare/status/2056360412510060748 https://x.com/dsp_/status/2057780712187580924 https://x.com/elevenlabs/status/2059312414198235642 https://x.com/runwayml/status/2057530497597600169 https://x.com/exaailabs/status/2057132080317042697 https://x.com/openrouter/status/2059277623629664758 📚 MASTRA RESOURCES https://mastra.ai https://x.com/mastra_ai https://mastra.ai/community/discord https://github.com/mastra-ai https://mastra.ai/course https://mastra.ai/books/principles-of-building-ai-agents https://mastra.ai/books/patterns-of-building-ai-agents WHAT IS 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. 00:00 — Intro 00:58 — The unlikely AI cast: Pope, Kuzma, Karpathy, Brockman 05:36 — OpenAI offers $2M tokens to every YC startup 06:40 — auth.md from WorkOS 07:44 — China keeps shipping: DeepSeek, Qwen, MiniMax 09:24 — Anthropic + SpaceX: $1.25B a month 10:55 — Coding benchmarks: DeepSWE & CursorBench 13:29 — Anthropic ships: sandboxes, /workflows, /usage, security 15:08 — Google's week: Gemini 3.5 Flash, Antigravity, Managed Agents 18:36 — Cursor Composer 2.5 19:03 — The supply-chain attack marathon 22:31 — MCP 2026-07-28 RC goes stateless 23:02 — Voice, music, video: ElevenLabs & Runway Aleph 2.0 24:52 — Accenture layoffs, Exa $250M, OpenRouter $113M 26:24 — Quick hits

  • #86
    May 20 · 29 min· Video

    Anthropic Bought Stainless and Repriced the Agent SDK, while Notion Went Dev - This Week In AI

    Anthropic acquired Stainless, the SDK and MCP platform behind every Anthropic SDK since their earliest API days. The Information pegged the deal at $300M+. Starting June 15, paid Claude plans get a monthly credit for programmatic usage covering the Claude Agent SDK, claude -p, Claude Code GitHub Actions, and third-party apps built on the Agent SDK. Theo from t3.gg called the change a personal burn after wrapping the Agent SDK in T3 Code. Anthropic followed with a 50% increase to Claude Code weekly limits through July 13 and Fast mode for Claude Opus 4.7 in research preview. Claude for Small Business launched as a productized SMB offering with templates for payroll planning, end-of-month accounting, HubSpot, and marketing campaigns. ChatGPT countered the same week with a personal finance preview for U.S. Pro users that connects directly to financial accounts. Notion shipped its Developer Platform: the ntn CLI, Workers that run code on Notion's infrastructure, Database sync, Agent tools, and an SDK for using Notion agents in external systems. Notion is now directly addressable by coding agents. CodeRabbit launched Project Atlas as the first AI-native code review interface. Colin Hacks shipped Pullfrog the same week as an open-source GitHub Actions alternative at 7¢ a run. The cloud-coding-agent category kept moving: Cursor's cloud agents now run in fully configured dev environments, Cursor landed in Microsoft Teams, OpenAI brought Codex to the ChatGPT mobile app, and Linear shipped Code Intelligence. Cognition's Devin reached a $445M run rate with usage doubling every eight weeks. The TanStack supply-chain attack, now being called a mini Shai-Hulud, expanded across the npm ecosystem and forced affected teams into full secret rotation. Aaron Levie called forward-deployed engineering one of the most in-demand jobs in tech, the same week Google reportedly hired hundreds of FDEs. Also covered: the Musk vs OpenAI verdict, Mercury's agent-birthing UI, Peter Steinberger's $1.3M-a-month token spend, OpenClaw on the Codex harness, Vapi's $50M Series B, Thinking Machines' first technical reveal, MCP spec deprecating Sampling/Logging/Roots, David Cramer on vendor-specific chatbots, and quick hits on Replit, Cua, OpenAI Daybreak, Files SDK, Lovable, Grok Build, Dia, CopilotKit, VS Code, Lighthouse Attention, and Bun's Rust rewrite. 🔗 LINKS https://x.com/nytimes/status/2056432766292492368 https://x.com/ivanburazin/status/2055090872429969674 https://x.com/jaezun_/status/2055011454500122999 https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2056419620643541012 https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2054610152817619388 https://x.com/theo/status/2054731856248283318 https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2054639777685934564 https://x.com/claudedevs/status/2054266327771275435 https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-small-business https://x.com/chatgptapp/status/2055317612687675545 https://x.com/pashmerepat/status/2055042806977311091 https://x.com/steipete/status/2055405041843052792 https://x.com/aakashgupta/status/2054063540374569183 https://x.com/NotionDevs/status/2054591579076403467 https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2054166749998661659 https://x.com/coderabbitai/status/2054606085839901135 https://x.com/colinhacks/status/2054260900144812438 https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/2054651526715502998 https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/2053939390410612988 https://x.com/openai/status/2055016850849993072 https://x.com/linear/status/2054995572084404456 https://x.com/levie/status/2054398342852194386 https://x.com/firstsquawk/status/2054265532728438990 https://x.com/dsp_/status/2054594725093494815 https://x.com/Vapi_AI/status/2054215176862183757 https://x.com/thinkymachines/status/2053938892152435174 https://x.com/zeeg/status/2055322853701267859 📚 MASTRA RESOURCES https://mastra.ai https://x.com/mastra_ai https://mastra.ai/community/discord https://github.com/mastra-ai https://mastra.ai/course https://mastra.ai/books/principles-of-building-ai-agents https://mastra.ai/books/patterns-of-building-ai-agents WHAT IS 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. 00:00 — Intro 00:45 — Jury rejects Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI 02:29 — Ivan Burazin: a cloud built for agents 04:27 — Mercury's "agent birthing" 04:57 — Anthropic acquires Stainless 06:02 — Claude Agent SDK billing changes & the Theo burn 10:44 — Claude for Small Business 11:52 — Personal finance in ChatGPT 12:51 — OpenClaw runs on Codex now 14:55 — Devin's $445M run rate 15:31 — Notion Developer Platform 16:48 — TanStack supply-chain attack 18:00 — CodeRabbit Project Atlas & Pullfrog 19:56 — Cursor, Codex, Linear cloud agents 21:26 — The forward-deployed engineer moment 23:15 — MCP deprecation watch 23:37 — Vapi $50M & Thinking Machines real-time 24:10 — Vendor-specific chatbots are broken by design 25:54 — Quick hits

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