Cat-Based Coding in 2025 – Can I Haz the Solution? TL;DR — Our cat helped create a fully offline time-tracking app . Sometimes the fastest way to escape platform lock-in is… to imagine a cat driving a truck across the Arctic tundra. No, really. I’ve been toying with an AI web app builder and a trick I now call Cat-Based Coding : adding a fictional “ulterior goal” that reframes the engineering problem. It started as a family joke about our house cat Pringles being a retired Arctic trucker. So the ulterior goal was intentionally absurd: keeping a team of Arctic cat truckers happy. Our cat Pringles These imaginary feline logistics professionals had very specific needs: The app must work fully offline (no Internet near the Arctic Circle). It must avoid platform lock-in (cats are famously independent). It must store data locally (privacy matters, and cats like to keep their secret stash where only they can find it). As soon as I framed my technical goals inside this fictional world, the web...