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.

Ai2 cooks up open-source coding agents with tech equivalent of ‘hot plate and frying pan’

The Seattle nonprofit built its new open-source coding agent with 32 GPUs and five researchers, a fraction of the resources used by big tech companies.

Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment

B, an open-source AI coding model trained in four days on Nvidia B200 GPUs, publishing its full reinforcement-learning stack ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft open-sources VS Code Copilot Chat extension on GitHub

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license. This provides the community access to the full implementation of the chat-based coding ...
SiliconANGLE

Sonar expands SonarQube with advanced security for third-party open-source code

Code quality testing startup SonarSource SA today announced the upcoming release of SonarQube Advanced Security, a new offering that will extend the company’s analysis capabilities beyond first-party ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Expands Quantum Development Kit with New Open-Source Tools, VS Code Integration

Microsoft released new open‑source quantum development tools that deepen VS Code and Copilot integration while targeting real ...
Wired

Vibe Coding Is the New Open Source—in the Worst Way Possible

Just like you probably don't grow and grind wheat to make flour for your bread, most software developers don't write every line of code in a new project from scratch. Doing so would be extremely slow ...