[kgwgk]

> 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.

[furyofantares]

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.

[kgwgk]

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

[simonw]

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