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You are giving the already decoded message as input, it’s just short hand with one typo. It’s hilarious that you might think that for 80 years no one was able to figure out that BTTE was supposed to be BITTE
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I wasn't thinking, just mechanically moving _what I though is the encrypted string_ into the LLMs context.

I did another proper run and gemini 3.8 flash in antigravity solved it in about 45min https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805363.

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You pasted in the decoded German and asked it to "decode" into English?
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Yeah. I wasn't _consious enough_ at the moment. Second attempt, though, succeeded https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805363
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I really, really would like to know what you were thinking when you pasted that "ciphertext" into the LLMs
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I wasn't :D
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