😸 Pulling teeth

Happy Friday Eve, legends! Welcome back to the Leaderboard. In today's edition, we're taking a look at an AI that could automate your work, a new image model that doesn't output slop, and a C interpreter that could make college a lot easier. Let's dive in.

Foundry: Build, test, and improve AI agents

There’s endless talk about how AI will radically change the nature of work, but what will that actually look like in practice? I think Foundry gives us an idea. The platform lets you build and tweak custom agents that can do everything from customer support to internal ops. But these agents aren’t wind-up dolls; they require frequent inputs and tweaks from thoughtful humans. In other words, humans in the workplace aren’t going anywhere — they’ll probably just spend a lot of their time supervising armies of agents.

Runway Frames: Runway's latest foundation model for image generation.

Getting Gen AI to create consistent, tasteful images usually feels like pulling teeth—like trying to guide a grade schooler through an art project, hoping for something that’s at least passable. Frames from Runway changes the game. It’s the first time it feels like the AI actually gets it. You’re not babysitting or endlessly tweaking; you’re stepping into the role of an Art Director. You focus on the big picture—world-building, creative vision—and the AI follows your lead, delivering results that actually feel aligned. It’s less of a chore, more of a collaboration, and honestly, it’s a huge relief.

CJIT: A C interpreter that lets you run C instantly.

Shortening the feedback loop has obvious implications for the velocity of any development team, and CJIT promises to do just that for folks working in C that spend their days waiting for their code to compile. I'm slightly scarred by my experience with lower-level languages from time at university and really would've appreciated this kind of tooling then -- I hope this helps all the warriors using C today.