Local-First AI Agents: Why Choose Desktop When Everything Else Moves to Cloud?

While most AI products are rushing to migrate inference capabilities to the cloud, selling points like "infinite compute" and "ultra-large models," the release of OpenWorker feels like a wake-up call. Its positioning is simple yet counterintuitive: local-first, desktop agent, for daily work. This reminds me of an analogy—while everyone else is trying to fly supersonic jets across oceans, someone chose to redesign the steam locomotive, claiming it's more reliable and private. Sounds absurd? But if you break down the technical logic of "local-first" in the context of AI agents, you'll find that this is precisely the most overlooked pain point in current AI implementation.