Sam Bhagwat – Cofounder of Mastra AI and author of Principles of Building AI Agents

DanielMay 7, 2025May 7, 2025

Hello and welcome! It's Daniel here, the author of 📘 Build AI Agents with LangGraph.

In this podcast episode, I talk with Sam Bhagwat, cofounder of Mastra AI, a TypeScript framework focused on AI agents, and previously cofounder of Gatsby.js. He is also the author of the Principles of Building AI Agents book.

We explore:

• The scope and features of the Mastra AI framework
• JavaScript vs. Python for AI
• The importance of tracing in AI agent development
• The book Principles of Building AI Agents
• Getting started with AI engineering
• Prompt engineering

And many more cool topics.

🔗 Links mentioned

• https://mastra.ai
• https://x.com/calcsam
• https://www.latent.space
• https://mastra.ai/book or https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Building-Agents-Sam-Bhagwat/dp/B0DYH5GHDD