Can you cheat the AI scoring system in the Eudaymon app

Since I started writing about the Eudaymon app and AI scoring, one question keeps coming back in private messages.

Can you just cheat the system

It is a fair question. If there is an EXP system and a level system, people will always try to find the easiest path. That is how games work and honestly how humans work in general.

The short answer is yes you can always try to cheat any self improvement app. The goal with Eudaymon is not to make cheating literally impossible. The goal is to make it boring and not very useful.

AI scoring in the Eudaymon app is being designed in a way where low effort spam should give you very little. If you write vague entries like worked hard today or did some stuff over and over again, the scoring should stay flat or give you tiny amounts of EXP. Repeating the same empty line ten times is not supposed to turn you into a level 30 monster in one evening.

Where the system should wake up is when you describe specific actions with real structure and difficulty. A real strength session with numbers reps and progression. A deep study block for an exam or an important skill. A hard conversation you were afraid of but still did. These kinds of things are where the AI scoring engine in Eudaymon will try to give meaningful EXP and move your life skill tree.

So in practice if you want to cheat Eudaymon, the easiest way will probably be to behave like a person who is actually improving. You will need to write believable entries that describe concrete actions with effort and consistency. At that point you are half way to doing the real thing anyway.

Another thing is that the Eudaymon app is not a competitive game. There is no public global ranking, no leaderboard. The main purpose of AI scoring is to give you a realistic map of your own progress. If you lie to the app all the time, the only person you are fooling is yourself. The life skill tree looks nice, but it does not match your real life.

There will always be edge cases and exploits. Any system that tries to model real life is messy. But the design of the Eudaymon AI scoring system is focused on this simple principle

Make the most rewarding way to use the app as close as possible to living in a way you are actually proud of

If you have ideas how people might try to abuse a self improvement app like this, or how to make cheating less attractive, feel free to share. These are exactly the kinds of edge cases that are useful to hear early while the Eudaymon app is still in development.