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DietrichGebert/ponytail
Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.
Ponytail is a skill/plugin for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, and ~20 others) that pushes them toward minimal code — YAGNI style. Instead of over-building (installing libraries, adding wrappers), the agent writes the smallest solution, reportedly cutting generated code by ~54% on average while staying ~20% cheaper and ~27% faster, with benchmark methodology published for reproduction.
Why now: It's trending on Trendshift with a large star count, and its recently revised agentic benchmark writeup (54% vs earlier 80-94% claims) plus a teaser waitlist are driving discussion.
Who it is for: Developers using AI coding agents who want less bloated, minimal output from their LLM-driven workflows.
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