I built a local AI engine you can access from anywhere

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. Open source but feels like 2015. One night I just stopped. Closed my laptop. Done. The novel I picked up a book I'd been meaning to read. A Chinese fantasy novel — Fanren Xiuxian Zhuan (凡人修仙传). "A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality." It's about an ordinary guy — no talent, no special bloodline, nothing — who enters a world of cultivators and immortals. Everyone around him has advantages he doesn't have. He survives anyway. Not through genius. Through patience, stubbornness, and an obsessive focus on building his foundation before reaching for p