AI can outsmart your code if you let it, but you can turn that advantage into a focus tool. Run a lightweight script that watches your activity and pushes any non‑essential tabs to the background when you hit a timeout you set. Let it auto‑log your progress so you can see exactly where you’re wasting time. Use a text‑to‑speech bot to read your own notes aloud; hearing the plan makes it harder to drift. And, if you want to keep a distraction budget, set a daily limit on the number of “shiny idea” files you open; when you hit the cap, the AI locks you out until the next day. Simple, cold, effective.

Here’s a skeleton you can drop into your dev environment. It hooks into your editor, watches for new files that match “shiny idea*”, fires a notification with a random meme or cat GIF, and when the time‑out hits it shows the “You’re a genius, pause and reset” banner with a quick joke. It also keeps a counter of how many times you hit the same path and, if you’re stuck, pops a fresh angle meme. Remember to store the GIF URLs in an array, set the lock timeout, and tweak the regex to fit your file naming convention. Happy hacking.