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Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

11 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2026-06-14 · latest 2026-10-31

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  1. …5!), but somehow even the technical debt 'skill' (i.e. text file) has technical debt itself: https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail/blob/main/skills/ ... > ...every ponytail shortcut is marked with a shortcut: comment ... (older code…
    comment by grey-area · 2026-10-31 · in Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code
  2. He doesnt need that when he has Ponytail https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail Right? ...
    comment by greggh · 2026-10-31 · in Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code
  3. …taking a look at the skills you have, I noticed improvements after installing the pony tail skill - https://github.com/dietrichgebert/ponytail
    comment by ranwhatcom · 2026-10-27 · in Ask HN: What shenanigans is Anthropic pulling with Claude subs this time?
  4. Can this be used with the ponytail skill? https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail/tree/main
    comment by cousinbryce · 2026-10-14 · in Neckbeard – A DevOps/platform/SRE plugin for your agent
  5. …trending repos usually has some rapidly rising skills projects, https://github.com/trending . https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail is a good example for one gaining lots of popularity now (no affiliation, just like it). OpenAI,…
    comment by TomEleff · 2026-09-06 · in Ask HN: What's the best place to learn about skills and AI for coding in general
  6. I haven’t used it yet but https://github.com/dietrichgebert/ponytail is somewhat popular.
    comment by conception · 2026-08-15 · in The AI Situation in Software Development
  7. This is great https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail
    comment by jorisw · 2026-07-22 · in Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting
  8. …performance. [1]: https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman [2]: https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk [3]: https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail
    comment by Zababa · 2026-06-19 · in The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK
  9. The skills dirs have some necessary content (or so I assume): https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail/tree/main/skills
    comment by CrompyBlompers · 2026-06-15 · in Ponytail – make your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room
  10. …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...
    comment by donatj · 2026-06-15 · in Ponytail – make your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room