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Sort of, they have no "hands", LLMs can only respond that they want to execute a tool/command. So they do that a lot to: read files, search for things, compile projects, run tests, run other arbitrary commands, fetch stuff from the internet etc.

Obviously the LLM inference is super heavy, but the actual work / task at hand is being executed on the device.



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