I built a local AI engine you can access from anywhere

Dev.to AI
Generative AI

I was building a distributed system - microservices, message queues, shared schemas, the works. I tried every AI agent I could find. Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, others. Weeks of bouncing between them. Each one was brilliant at one thing and broken at the rest. Great reasoning but terminal-only. Beautiful editor but thinks in files, not systems. Powerful but cloud-only - and I wasn't sending my credentials through someone else's servers. One night I just stopped. Closed my laptop. Done. The novel I picked up a book I'd been meaning to read.