I built a local AI coding system that actually understands your codebase — here's what I learned

I'm Gowri Shankar, a DevOps engineer from Hyderabad. I just open-sourced a project I've been building for the past few weeks, and I want to share it honestly — what it does, how I built it, and what I learned. 🔗 GitHub: github.com/gowrishankar-infra/leanai 🤔 The Problem Every AI coding tool I've used has the same frustration: it sees my code for the first time, every time. I paste a snippet, explain the context, get an answer, close the tab — and next session, start from zero. Claude doesn't know my project structure. GPT doesn't remember what we discussed yesterday. Copilot suggests function names that don't exist in my codebase. I wanted an AI that permanently understands my project. So I built one. 🧠 What LeanAI Does LeanAI is a fully local AI coding assistant. It runs Qwen2.5 Coder (7B and 32B) on your machine. No cloud, no API keys, no subscriptions, no data leaving your computer. Here's what makes it different from existing tools: 📂 It knows your entire codebase Run /brain . and