Comment by ijidak

Disagree. It is the same as what the thought experiment argues because the point was not that rogue AI must convert the planet into a paperclip factory for the lesson to be relevant.

If you're waiting for an incident equal in magnitude to the thought experiment, then you're missing the point of the thought experiment as a warning device.

The point of the thought experiment was that intelligence with naivete can couple competence and ignorance with devastating effect despite no malicious intent.

Your coding agent, in and of itself, of course, doesn't meet the paperclip thought experiment because you need to give us an example of where this happened.

It requires an instance by instance comparison. It's not an intrinsic state of a thing.

E.g. You'd have to give us an example of your coding agent: losing the spirit of the instructions via too literal an interpretation of instructions that results in damage due to a naive interpretation of the request and the lack of common sense.

The OP is saying this is an incident where those criteria are satisfied. And I agree with the OP on this one. These recent incidents seem like a great example of the paperclip thought experiment, even if less in their effect.