AbdullahHameedKhan/karpathy-ponytail-skills

Karpathy's LLM coding guidelines merged with Ponytail's laziness ladder, think before coding, climb the simplicity ladder, touch only what you must.

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Behavioral guidelines merging Andrej Karpathy's LLM coding observations with Ponytail's laziness ladder. Enforces: think before coding (surface tradeoffs, ask before assuming), simplicity via a 7-rung decision ladder (YAGNI → reuse → stdlib → native → existing dep → one line → minimum code), surgical changes (touch…

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