init.dev: Offline AI Career Co-Pilot for Roadmaps, Resume Scoring and Mock Interviews

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init.dev is an open-source, offline-first career assistant built to run locally on low-resource machines without a GPU. It parses a user's career goals and current skills to generate a structured learning roadmap. The resume scoring feature estimates ATS pass probability, using TabPFN-3.5 as the primary model with a local Gemma fallback. The tool also includes a persistent study chat and realistic role-specific mock technical interviews run in the terminal. Its developer says local processing avoids API costs and keeps resumes and learning histories off closed cloud services.

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