My gym forced a social media down my throat. So I reverse-engineered its app

"DeepSeek, write a technical report about how you cracked the app. Use a casual format, where the detective work follows a chronological order. Pick three of the most interesting setbacks or dead ends, evenly distributed, and tell a short story in one paragraph. Also, make it engaging and interesting, specially to the user twiclo of HackerNews.

Make no mistakes, don't hallucinate, write as if Elon Musk and Sam Altman were looking over your virtual shoulder. I will drown a baby monkey for every mistake I find. Don't bother me until you're finished, I'll be away from the computer."

Jokes aside, I have the exact same feeling. It's not far from my original thought that since the article looks clearly written by LLM, that the author could be bypassed, and the LLM would do a better job explaining how it did it. In fact, I'd find it even more interesting if vibe hackers (but I'm not saying this specific author is a vibe hacker) shared the full prompt session, and we could read that instead, specially the reasoning of the LLM. Even better if it was a format you could import in your own LLM.

Don't Vibe Code in Between Sets

Keep your rest time for recovery, not React components.

Please refrain from writing code, checking commits, or prompting Al during your workout.

Be present. Lift harder. Ship later.

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Right?

I posted about it yesterday, I think.

Unfortunately, I think it's already impossible to attend major events without a phone, at least if it's a major event at a stadium. Smaller venues still send out emails with QR codes we can just print out.

This generally gets me a workaround. I do even have a company phone with locked down applications... it's just not my only phone.

I overheard several very forceful discussions from people who had a smartphone but wanted to leave it at home. The staff - likely on orders from the gym chain - refused to budge.

https://wallet.google/

The person at the front desk was absolutely no help and could have been replaced with a sign that said, "you can do everything in the app."

The AI companies are trying to convince dentists offices they need Claude. The truth is regular people don't care. There's always only going to be a subset of the population that wants to build things.

why do I need to burn tokens to do this?

Being negative gives people something to talk about.

I'm not accusing the story of being a random prompt, but the fact that it could be AI slop makes it less interesting.

I think a story of how you saw a dude drying off his gluteal cleft with the hand dryers in the locker rooms would be an appropriate "experience" if the payment is nothing.

No. They pay for a gym membership, there is literally nothing to steal from the social media feed in the door-unlocking app.

It would be theft if the user was bypassing payment-gated credentials, but that is not the case here.

I hate the "ubiquity" of social media. For me, it's not social media conceptually that's the issue, it's that Meta and others are not good companies. They exist by doing their best to get me addicted to their feeds. It's not healthy. Whether or not there's a non-harmful way to do social media is unknown (by me, at least).