I tried a Claude Code alternative that's local, open source, and completely free - how it works

I was curious if Block's Goose agent, paired with Ollama and the Qwen3-coder model, could really replace Claude Code. Here's how I got started.
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‘I Don’t Write Code Anymore’: Anthropic, OpenAI Engineers Say AI Now Writes 100% of Their Code

Anthropic and OpenAI engineers say AI writes nearly all their code, reshaping workflows, hiring, and the outlook for ...

Gen Z programming language dreamt up by an AI with a Ralph Wiggum loop

Yeah, sure. Whatever you say, pal.
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OpenAI’s latest product lets you vibe code science

OpenAI just revealed what its new in-house team, OpenAI for Science, has been up to. The firm has released a free LLM-powered ...
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4 VS Code forks built for specific tasks

The classic VS Code is great and all, but these specialized forks are better for certain programming tasks ...