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

I was curious if Block's Goose agent, paired with Ollama and the Qwen3-coder model, could really replace Claude Code. Here's how it worked.
GitHub

Bring Notion-style layouts with blocks side-by-side, resizable markdown blocks that support full Obsidian syntax including images, embeds, and internal links.

⚠️ WARNING Please refrain from entering tasks directly within the Horizontal code block. The Horizontal function operates based on the code block. In Obsidian, text within a code block is treated as ...
Houston Chronicle

John Whitmire lauds updated ICE report, but continues to block further comment

Just a week after Houston Mayor John Whitmire lauded a New York Times' correction over the status of the city of Houston not leading in ICE arrests, the mayor has been largely unresponsive to local ...
CNN

Israeli soldiers shot and killed a West Bank teen they say ‘hurled a block.’ Video shows them shooting him point blank

The Israeli military said it shot dead a Palestinian “suspected of hurling a block” at soldiers on Saturday during an operation in the occupied West Bank town of Qabatiya. Video reviewed by CNN shows ...
Wired

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Are Teaming Up to Make AI Agents Play Nice

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block have cofounded a new open source organization—the Agentic AI Foundation—to promote standards for artificial intelligence agents. The three companies are also transferring ...
Diginomica

Anthropic, OpenAI, and Block donate AI agent projects to new Linux Foundation body

The Linux Foundation today announce the formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a new home for open source projects that underpin how AI agents connect to tools, data, and each other. The ...
Fast Company

Block insiders talk about how Jack Dorsey turned Square into a multidimensional financial services giant

On November 19, Block Inc. held its first Investor Day in three years. Jack Dorsey, the company’s cofounder, chief executive, and “Block Head,” took to the stage and summarily posed what many ...
IEEE

Code Comment Inconsistency Detection and Rectification Using a Large Language Model

Abstract: Comments are widely used in source code. If a comment is consistent with the code snippet it intends to annotate, it would aid code comprehension. Otherwise, Code Comment Inconsistency (CCI) ...
Diginomica

Don't panic! What Sam Altman’s OTT declaration of a 'code red' for OpenAI tells us about the race he thinks he's running

OpenAI CEO has recently declared a “code red” after losing the lead in the LLM race. His resulting frantic engineers might be frantically rushing around to gain a leg up in a race that is forgotten in ...
Austin

Supreme Court blocks order that found Texas congressional map is likely racially biased

AUSTIN, Texas — Grab your scissors and glitter glue—creativity is always in season at Austin Creative Reuse. While International Creativity Month may be over, t Get Your Home Game-Day ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘No Comment’ Skewers “Pathetic” Politicians and Their Spin Doctors, With One Role Inspired by Kellyanne Conway

Laila Goody and Pia Tjelta star in the Norwegian film with 'Wag the Dog' vibes that made its international debut at Tallinn: "It's very important in a democracy to make fun of the people with the ...
AZ Central

'Worst idea' in town history? Fountain Hills may end public comment at meetings

The proposal follows a resident's threat to sue the town over alleged religious proselytizing by council members and the public. While government bodies are not legally required to offer public ...