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Ponytail – make your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room (github.com)
9NRtKyP4 3 days ago [-]
Oh the irony of this giant repo for a prompt. Is this the new leftpad?
donatj 2 days ago [-]
My thoughts exactly. The whole thing is essentially just these rules, and a metric ton of boilerplate for specific plugin systems.

My own personal ponytail says this could just be this in a code block of a README

https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail/blob/main/.github...

CrompyBlompers 2 days ago [-]
The skills dirs have some necessary content (or so I assume):

https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail/tree/main/skills

wiradikusuma 2 days ago [-]
Real senior developers can do that because they have experience and can put that in context. E.g. <input type="date"> maybe fine for one scenario, but we might need a fancier one for another. I wonder if the skill takes PRD or the surrounding code into context to better emulate those developers?
rcxdude 2 days ago [-]
A lot of it is about developing good judgement, IMO.
usernamed7 3 days ago [-]
> You ask for a date picker

    <input type="date">
wow... this is me
Neywiny 3 days ago [-]
I will be trying this ASAP. With the locally hosted models I've run and Gemeni's free no-login results, I've found they love to put in everything the skill here tells it not to. Today one in Python put a lambda that has no arguments to call a function that takes no arguments instead of just passing the function. There's at least one linter that checks for that but still it's a lot of babysitting to get good code.
oakinnagbe 2 days ago [-]
The repo is bigger than most of the code Ponytail would allow me to write.
mpalmer 2 days ago [-]
In the spirit of the project, I can replace this with a "one-liner":

    Is there a simpler solution?
klooney 3 days ago [-]
Wizard spells more than engineering
scotty79 1 days ago [-]
We are past weaving wizard spells. Now we are at cunning demon summoning.
avadodin 2 days ago [-]
This joke repository is so offensive! I haven't even had a ponytail since 1996.
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