A coding interview gave me a 404 in the spec. Principal said "ask your AI to find the right URL." Round 2 interview with a mid-size company. Around 70 engineers, building agentic AI in a regulated industry. Principal SE + Staff SE. 90 minutes. So they give me a coding take-home, basically — pull data from a public API, return in specific format. TypeScript + tests. I open their spec. Click the URL. 404. (panic, I think — do they even know their whole thing is broken here? we are about to waste a ton of time and never get to the actual interview) I ask, is this URL right? The Principal calmly says "yeah we are experimenting. You are the first candidate doing this assignment. Ask your AI to find the right URL." (my internal voice: great, I'm your guinea pig, whats next on the menu) I sat with that. Two options. Either the spec is genuinely broken and I am unlucky. Or this is a test of whether I will blindly trust their document. Picked option 2. It is the only version where I look fine either way.…