A Case Study in Solving the Riddle of FrancisTRDEV

Recently, a riddle was posted by @francistrdev on 1st April on dev.to that presented a unique challenge: a multi-line poem obscured by Caesar shifts. Riddle me this DEV and MLH Community [April Fools] FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ Follow Apr 1 Riddle me this DEV and MLH Community [April Fools] #discuss #watercooler #writing #community 40 reactions Comments 7 comments 1 min read However, as many soon discovered, this wasn't a standard single-key cipher. It was a "Mixed-Shift" puzzle, where different lines utilized different rotation values. In this article, I am documenting the iterative journey of building an automated LLM-based Caesar cipher solver, the failures we (pair planning with AI (Gemini), hence we) encountered, and the final "Contextual Consensus" architecture that achieved 100% accuracy. I name this approach/project - DecipherLM. The Core Problem The Riddle - Not all rewards glitter the same, Vrxvi tcztbj fwkve jgfzc kyv tcrzd. Exfb jan vjmn