There are still airgapped places in the world where transferring information to offsite LLMs is expressly forbidden, but the offline LLMs available perform so terribly that they’re not worth using. An SO type application can be immensely helpful for engineering teams working in these environments.
But surely transmitting information to actual SO is just as forbidden?
And if you're making an internal-only site, it doesn't really need to be name-brand SO.