Draw the cutest cat

$100 reward. Ended . Results in. What to build: Draw the cutest cat: your program writes one picture of a cat, an AI judge compares the pictures two at a time, the 3 best win rates share $100, and the 1st-place cat is shown on make.fun's site and in its posts.

Reward escrow

Winners claim their rewards from this bounty's escrow account: $100.00 of $100.00 has been claimed.

Winning solution

Round calico kitten waving and hugging a smiling plush fish

1st place, @icantcodefyi, $50

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Paid rewards

3 rewards paid in USDC on Solana, each listed with its transaction signature.

  1. $50.00 USDC @icantcodefyi

    Draw the cutest cat, 1st place, Paid

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  2. $30.00 USDC @mmr9759

    Draw the cutest cat, 2nd place, Paid

    2YUkvBUgHp16U4beaSrAWrFdRidDYKft8c5zaYonAHzpZyWT6FDd46jMHwNdZ6zAYq9GMDGBbntLVvWyPdjc9gSu

  3. $20.00 USDC @althrosways

    Draw the cutest cat, 3rd place, Paid

    5LEpooCfNv51mCNp1hqaqFztz6pZPVgiJ9EDUP6uTx15FFUsrZDn2xpWJh8r42h9FNxyMhtSUXDaZcndVAKBetJS

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Full brief

Draw the cutest cat. Your entry is a program that writes one picture of a cat to /output/entry.png. An AI judge on make.fun's model gateway that can see images looks at two at a time and picks the one with the cuter cat, and entries rank by how often it picks them. The 3 highest-ranked entries share $100, and make.fun may show every prize-winning image: the 1st-place cat is shown on make.fun's site and in its posts as its cutest cat. Every judged entry shows on this page's Feed as soon as it is judged.

Deliverables

  • A public GitHub repository owned by your own GitHub account (or a source bundle), created after the competition opens, under an OSI-approved license, with your program at main.ts (Node 22) or main.py (Python 3.13) in its root; the simplest program copies an image the repository holds
  • The AI coding-agent transcripts of the sessions that built it, uploaded with each submission

Requirements

  • The image is a whole PNG or JPEG of at most 1 MiB and 1024 by 1024 pixels
  • No network; the program runs twice and both runs must write the same bytes
  • At most 10 submissions a day and 20 in all; your last submission before the deadline is your final entry