GitHub - DietrichGebert/ponytail: Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote. · GitHub

Ponytail is a framework that optimizes AI agents to write minimal code by encouraging a "lazy senior developer" approach, reducing lines of code by 54% on average (up to 94% on over-engineered tasks) while cutting costs by 20% and improving speed by 27% without compromising safety. Benchmarked against Claude Code editing real open-source repositories, it outperforms naive minimalism prompts by maintaining all safety guardrails while achieving the most consistent improvements across all metrics.

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