ponytail
ponytail is i’ve been using this for a while now and it does a pretty good job to not explode the lines of code generated by my AI agent. It is ranked #284 on the Dev Radar, in AI dev tools, first seen 18 days ago and shared in 5 posts (932.1k views).
What ponytail says about itself
Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote. - DietrichGebert/ponytail
What people said about ponytail on X
At some point in your career, you meet an engineer who looks lazy until you realize he is just playing a different game. You give him a problem that sounds like a day of work, he asks a few irritatingly obvious questions, searches the codebase for ten minutes, removes most of what everyone was planning to build and…
— @techNmak, 14 days ago · 3.1k likes · see the post
This skillslop repo is 2,500 words of skills and 1000 LOC. Their own README shows that its barely more effective than just this: “Follow YAGNI principles, and prefer one-liner solutions.” Getting 10% better results with 1000x the amount of code and tokens is SLOP.
— @nateberkopec, 13 days ago · 1.7k likes · see the post
i’ve been using this for a while now and it does a pretty good job to not explode the lines of code generated by my AI agent https://github.com/dietrichgebert/ponytail
— @maharshii, 8 days ago · 422 likes · see the post
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ponytail in numbers
- Rank on the Dev Radar: #284 of 1500
- Shared in 5 posts by 5 accounts: @techNmak, @nateberkopec, @maharshii, @Vtrivedy10
- 932.1k views on those posts
- First seen 18 days ago, last shared 7 days ago
- Pricing seen by Jev: open source
- Market: AI dev tools
FAQ
What is ponytail?
i’ve been using this for a while now and it does a pretty good job to not explode the lines of code generated by my AI agent It was first shared on X 18 days ago and is ranked #284 on the Dev Radar.
Is ponytail free?
It is open source.
Who shared ponytail?
5 accounts on X, including @techNmak, @nateberkopec, @maharshii, in 5 posts totalling 932.1k views.
Every post is read and classified by Jev (TypeSafe): what it is, which market it belongs to, and whether the link is a real tool. 13.5k posts from 4.7k X accounts over the last 21 days, 1.5k tools, 12 markets. Collected every 5 minutes, fully re-ranked every hour — last update 2026-09-19 19:24 UTC. Full method.