Call me obtuse but the way this is being portrayed by the companies involved, media, seems a little odd to me.

Didn't the model + harness do what was asked? If I ask a coding agent to write a very clever piece of code and it turns out impressively clever, it did what I asked.

> Didn't the model + harness do what was asked?

Depends exactly what they asked it to do, but it very clearly didn't do what was intended, or what an honest human would do.

Stop trying to find a gotcha.