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calcsam

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About calcsam

now: co-founder/ceo at mastra.ai prev: co-founder @ gatsby.

calcsam _at_ gmail.com

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    Comment #46707164

    Those are both good options. You should try us all out and see which one you like best!

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    Comment #46707018

    Our cloud platform is in beta so it's free right now!

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    Comment #46706924

    You found the Easter egg!

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    Comment #46701923

    Thanks for the feedback. We hear from a lot of devs with fond memories of Gatsby but if it cuts the opposite way for you that's also fair! Most of us spent a lot of the last decade…

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    Comment #46701891

    Cloud-hosted observability + studio features (and self-hosted with EE bits). You can take a look at the cloud platform at cloud.mastra.ai, it's in beta currently It's the same play…

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    Comment #46701878

    Re: Tanstack AI, really depends on adoption. We've known Tanner since his react-static days and if it takes off we'll def work together. Re: Mastra cloud -- this is basically hoste…

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    Comment #46700115

    ah crap, thanks for heads-up. looking into it.

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    Comment #46700105

    Thank you for using us, and for the feedback! Do you have code snippets you can share about how you wanted to write the rules? Want to understand desired grammar / syntax better.

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    Comment #46699989

    Have a ton of respect for the AI SDK team. Initially we only used AI SDK model routing, but now we also have our own built-in model routing as well. I see each of us having differe…

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    Comment #46699688

    Thank you! We have an incredible designer and we love obsessing about this stuff.

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    Comment #46699248

    We've always supported letting folks specify their agent hierarchy, eg agent supervisor, workflow orchestrator, mix and match, etc. But people kept asking us for a multi-agent prim…

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    Comment #46699159

    Less frequently sites and more frequently a SaaS app, for example Sanity released a content agent in their CMS, Factorial released an agent inside their HR/payroll product. But ton…

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    Comment #46699134

    When Langchain was the only option rolling your own made a lot of sense! These days we see things going the other way, where teams that started rolling their own shift over to Mast…

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    Comment #46697970

    And I actually hadn't seen that Brex piece so thanks for sharing!!

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    Comment #46697963

    LOL thanks swyx. Yeah we realized although we _could_ fight that war again...it would be better for everyone if we didn't...

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    Re: lessons from coding agents, we're building some of the key abstractions like sandboxes, filesystem, skills/knowledge as Mastra primitives in over the next month. For any agent …

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    Comment #46697673

    I mean we're framework guys so I would agree!

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    Comment #46697614

    Thanks! And of course hope you try Mastra out when you do.

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    Comment #46697431

    Thanks! That's a lot of why we built Mastra. We wanted something that felt like it was made for us.

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    Comment #46697421

    You should use whatever framework you feel like has the best DX / fits your stack best! We're TypeScript-first, TypeScript-only so a lot of the teams who use us are full-stack Type…

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    Comment #46697398

    Thanks, great to hear!

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    Comment #46697381

    There's the normal stuff you'd expect -- we're all Opus-pilled, use Claude Code, a PR review bot etc. But it's been especially helpful with highly templatized code like our storage…