Ponytail – make your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room
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wiradikusuma
rcxdude
A lot of it is about developing good judgement, IMO.
9NRtKyP4
Oh the irony of this giant repo for a prompt. Is this the new leftpad?
donatj
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
The skills dirs have some necessary content (or so I assume):
usernamed7
> You ask for a date picker
<input type="date">
Neywiny
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
The repo is bigger than most of the code Ponytail would allow me to write.
amai
klooney
Wizard spells more than engineering
scotty79
We are past weaving wizard spells. Now we are at cunning demon summoning.
mpalmer
In the spirit of the project, I can replace this with a "one-liner":
Is there a simpler solution?avadodin
This joke repository is so offensive! I haven't even had a ponytail since 1996.
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?