Comment by Matticus_Rex

I'm sure there are things local models are good enough at in non-coding work, but for anything complex I do not find this to be the case.

I'd say local models are fairly capable of even somewhat complex coding execution. For complex non-coding work (research, in-depth analysis, assembly of complex info-dense documents) I'd rather do it by hand than switch from Opus 4.7 to anything I could even theoretically run locally.