I Built a Private, Local-First AI Assistant with Flask

The Goal: I wanted an AI assistant that doesn't save my logs to the cloud and utilize my hardware. Though it's quite slow as of now, I believe with further optimization and advancement in local silicon, edge AI would inevitably become the next big thing in the very near future. The Tech: I used Flask, TinyLlama, and Python-dotenv for security. I also took the help of Claude and Copilot wherever the code was repetitive and well beyond my current grasp on Python. I am a college freshman (about to