Show HN: Klad, a paint app your coding agent can drive (source-available)
I've been developing applications for a long time and have turned to game development as well lately. One of the things that frustrated me the most was that using AI agents for game development is very annoying in the art department. Your only options right now are to either use an image genAI model and roll the dice every time you want to make an edit, or have your agent draw with something like vectors. I was looking for an application that would allow me to ask an agent to make a first draft
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points · 68 votes
2026-11-11 23:09:21.635Z
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Repository: klad-app/klad. Source account: I've been developing applications for a long time and have turned to game development as well lately. One of the things that frustrated me the most was that using AI agents for game development is very annoying in the art department. Your only options right now are to either use an image genAI model and roll the dice every time you want to make an edit, or have your agent draw with something like vectors. I was looking for an application that would allow me to ask an agent to make a first draft
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Source votes: 68 votes (Nov 11, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication); previous same-scope observation: 65 (Nov 11, 2026 UTC). These observations do not establish demand growth. Recent records to compare: “Show HN: Motion Debugger – A browser critic for AI slop” (Show HN, Nov 12, 2026); “Show HN: Receipts, agent skills that make PRDs and metrics cite their evidence” (Show HN, Nov 12, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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