This is just helping out with trivial tasks, which sounds very much in scope of LLMs. The OP was talking about replacing "world class consultants", which I'm very sceptical of.

How many people actually hire consultants, let alone "world class" consultants? Especially on a regular basis. The value delivered by solving problems you encounter daily (hourly?) will outstrip the value you get from problems you need to solve every year or two (or more).

I get a half decent expert to solve problems I don't have the patience or experience to solve myself. That's literally the definition of what a consultant does. What you call "trivial" is what lots of other people describe what consultants largely do.

I use it almost exclusively to help me approach novel problems, or at least problem spaces that I am severely lacking expertise in. It’s pretty incredible for helping me leverage my extant programming knowledge to accomplish things that I couldn’t before due to being blocked by research.

I’ve also used it quite a lot for advice as I was learning project management and moving away from individual contributions.

So I think as a consultant it has value, though I think “world class” might be a bit hyperbolic, since I still need to validate its output.

> I use it almost exclusively to help me approach novel problems, or at least problem spaces that I am severely lacking expertise in. It’s pretty incredible for helping me leverage my extant programming knowledge to accomplish things that I couldn’t before due to being blocked by research.

Can you expand on this? This is what I'd like to use it for, but I don't ever have any experience remotely close to helpful. The typical response is just something like "that's complicated but here's some gibberish that tries to show a simple example but is still wrong in ways it's not useful at all".

Do you have a specific example?

I've had it craft legal letters in German. Very good content