Ponytail hits 126k GitHub stars by making AI agents code like the laziest senior dev
TheMoonMidas · x · 2026-09-05
- Miles Cranmer shared the GitHub project ponytail, calling it "basically a really good prompt for slop-generating agents."
- The project's philosophy: 'The best code is the code you never wrote' — it makes AI agents think like the laziest senior dev in the room.
- README claims roughly 54% less code written; the repo has racked up 126k stars and 6.8k forks.
- Ships with rules/plugins for nearly every coding agent tool: Claude, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, Devin, Grok, OpenCode, Kiro and more, plus a ponytail-mcp server.
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