Caveman 与 Ponytail：让代理少说少写

the two employees your claude code / codex should hire. both grabbed the #1 spot on github trending weekly at some point. one saves you words, one saves you code. caveman, 81k stars, 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸. the avatar is a gray rock and the resume is probably carved on one too. answers in 19 tokens: Bug in auth middleware. Fix. done. → output tokens -75% → same react diagnosis: 69 tokens down to 19 → works on claude code, codex, cursor, 30+ agents ponytail, 72k stars, 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿-𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴. long greasy ponytail, oval glasses, been at the company longer than the version control. you hand him 50 lines, he pushes up his glasses and hands back 1. ask for a date picker and he gives you <input type="date">, won't even install flatpickr. → code -54%, up to -94% when the agent over-builds → cost -20%, speed +27% → measured on 12 real claude code tasks on a real fastapi + react repo i assumed it was pick one. read both repos, they manage different things, you can hire both. ponytail even dragged caveman into its benchmark as a control arm: 20% less code but 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘂𝗽 𝟯%. that's ponytail's own test though. worth installing both and running your own round, your repo and your tasks are not theirs