Can I get some love for extremely high quality research produced by a high school intern and a college intern?

Gone are the days of interns fetching coffee - we’re all now remote.

Gone are the days of interns booking your meetings - Calendly and the like have solved that.

Gone are the days of interns spending weeks to summarize a 400 page book so a principal can figure out whether to read it and which parts.

These are the days of interns having superior vibe coding skills to their bosses.

These are the days of interns identifying, licensing and parsing gigantic specialist datasets in a few hours by spinning up their own apps.

These are the days of interns developing their own thesis and leveraging LLMs to figure out whether its right or wrong - or to refine their take.

Alexander Ting and Leo Gerza here analyze how every Fortune 50 company talks about political risk in their corporate filings and earnings calls and notes how NVIDIA serves as a model for turning risk into opportunity. They did this by spinning up their own model to understand every risk these companies talk about, how they describe it and then searching for an interesting narrative.

We’re a far cry from my internships footnoting manuscripts in between coffee runs.