The bloom is off the AI rose and the consulting class doesn't have a good replacement magic bean yet. Expect more fumbling like this until they arrive at the next narrative.

Yeah, if even 5% of the work requires human input, that means that the maximum achievable productivity benefit is 20x. But in my experience, that style of work looks too much like 'dude in his bedroom doing whatever he wants' for management to allow such independence. So you get loaded up with meetings, admin tasks etc. which kill most of the gains.