“These kinds of tasks, even as simple as they are, used to be impossible for local models as recently as 6 months ago.”
Local models quietly got good. Refactors, tests, linting, all running on a laptop with no API bill and no data leaving the machine. Six months ago this was a joke. The frontier labs want you renting tokens forever, and the open models on your own hardware are closing the gap faster than that story can survive.