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Ponytail: Lazy Senior Dev Skill for Claude Code

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Oct 5, 2026

Ponytail: Lazy Senior Dev Skill for Claude Code A Claude Code skill that forces Claude to think like the laziest senior dev, reducing code output by 54% and cost by 20% by climbing a decision ladder before writing code.

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Before writing a single line, Claude has to climb a ladder: does this need to exist? is it already in the codebase? does the standard library do it? is there a native feature for it? is the dependency already installed? can it be one line? only then does it write the minimum that works. Installation: /plugin marketplace add DietrichGebert/ponytail /plugin install ponytail@ponytail

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