> Local LLMs may not be exposed to the internet, but if you want them to do something useful you're likely going to hook them up to an internet-accessing harness such as OpenCode or Claude Code or Codex CLI.

is not "someone finding useful to have a local llm ingest internet content" - it was someone suggesting that nothing useful can be done without internet access.

I guess I don't read that how you do. It says you're likely to do that, which I take to mean that's a majority use case, not that it's the only use case.

It also said "but" and "if you want them to do something useful" which made the "likely" sound much less innocent.

Yeah, I retracted my statement that they can't do anything useful without the internet here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45670828