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 **80-94% less code, 42-75% less cost, and 3-6× faster than a no-skill agent, on every Claude model.** Every shortcut ponytail takes is marked in the code with a `ponytail:` comment naming its upgrade path. Reproduce it yourself: `npx promptfoo eval -c benchmarks/promptfooconfig.yaml`. Method and raw numbers: [benchmarks/](benchmarks/). Production-grade tasks, where an unconstrained agent bloats far more, are written up in [benchmarks/results/](benchmarks/results/).
 
-**That is the byproduct, not the pitch.** These are Claude numbers, and they vary by model. Capable instruction-following models follow the ladder and write far less, cheaper and faster; terse reasoning models can go the other way, on GPT-5.5 the always-on ruleset costs more than it saves. The rule was never "fewest tokens." It is: write only what the task needs, and never cut validation, error handling, security, or accessibility. The code ends up small because it is necessary, not golfed, and that is the part that stays maintainable. Lower cost and latency are a side effect on the models that follow it.
+**That is the byproduct, not the pitch.** These are Claude numbers, and they vary by model. Capable instruction-following models follow the ladder and write far less, cheaper and faster. Terse reasoning models can go the other way: the ladder is a deliberation step, so the model spends thinking tokens working through the rungs before it saves any output, and together with the always-on ruleset that can cost more than the shorter code saves. On GPT-5.5 it does. The rule was never "fewest tokens." It is: write only what the task needs, and never cut validation, error handling, security, or accessibility. The code ends up small because it is necessary, not golfed, and that is the part that stays maintainable. Lower cost and latency are a side effect on the models that follow it.
 
 ## How it works