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Re: Ponytail – make your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room

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Oh the irony of this giant repo for a prompt. Is this the new leftpad?

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...

The skills dirs have some necessary content (or so I assume):

https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail/tree/main/skills

Re: Ponytail – make your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room

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> You ask for a date picker wow... this is me

I had long discussions over whether we could just not use tons on npm libraries and use the native browser feature for things like that. I typically lose these discussions because I'm considered the backend guy. My knowledge about HTML, JS and CSS dates back to times when there was no npm...

Re: Ponytail – make your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room

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> You ask for a date picker wow... this is me

I had long discussions over whether we could just not use tons on npm libraries and use the native browser feature for things like that. I typically lose these discussions because I'm considered the backend guy. My knowledge about HTML, JS and CSS dates back to times when there was no npm...

People often forget how good tablet and mobile datepickers have gotten as well. They may not match your sites weird style exactly, but they'll feel native and handle lots of things like ADA compliance that your crappy custom one likely won't.

"you're" here referring to higher ups not you personally

Re: Ponytail – make your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room

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Wait is this a joke? I think it's incredibly useful to have these basic 5 heuristics. I've been trying to wrangle the agents to make very simple deletions and text edits quicker, faster. But just saying "go faster on these edits" isn't doing it.
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