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a couple of months ago i was tasked to gather suggestions for "fun" test tasks for junior developers and the most popular one was english to chinese but gibberish translator with caveat to figure out how to make input text technically a translation but also uniquely nonsensical one. even though it's not really a galaxy brain task and you could probably just vibecode that thing - the failure rate for it was surprisingly high because folks can't fathom OULIPO.
Dude, I didn't even understand the task until I did a search for what OULIPO was.
the catch of the task is that you just need to implement S+7 technique before the initial translation and translate that as input instead of the actual input without indicating that particular switch up. it is actually pretty neat problem solving task for a business analyst but can be a lot for a programmer.