Indeed; but for the author, the challenge was not to produce a good translation of anything, or to develop a good automated process for doing so. It was to bash together a website that churns out translations, without even a specified level of quality. For the author, these are all challenges of making a process to do something; not to produce any actual artifacts of quality.

It's easier to believe you can solve any engineering problem if you limit your thinking to problems you comfortably believe you can solve..