> Right now, all top tier LLMs are as eager, bright 20ish year old interns. > Yet directly guide them, monitor everything they do, some value emerges.

That's simply not true. I've had some very talented interns, and they are leagues ahead of what the LLMs can do. Not that it matters though, because the point of having interns wasn't to have them produce value. What made the investment worth it was that 12 months down the line I would have a competent colleague that I could have an interesting conversation with. A human person that could challenge some of my blind spots. A person that could take responsibility of something. Maybe not my most important work, but some of it. You don't get ANY of that from the LLM.