ponytail: 'Laziest Senior Dev' YAGNI Skill Hits ~58K Stars in Two Weeks
GitHub·high signal
DietrichGebert/ponytail, a Claude Code/Cursor skill that makes AI agents 'think like the laziest senior dev in the room' and write less code, has rocketed to roughly 58,500 stars since launching June 12, 2026 — about two weeks. It's a YAGNI-driven prompt plugin that biases agents toward deleting and not-writing code, directly targeting the over-generation problem builders hit with autonomous coding agents.