I concur, after LeCun gave the warning to PhD students to steer clear of LLMs I heeded it and can say my career is better as a result: why compete/join a hype cycle if you can help solve foundational problems.
The difference between AGI and LLMs mainly is in the architecture, specifically that LLMs freeze the entire network, whereas AGI would leave some of it perpetually unfrozen so it can update as it goes.