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.

Google Workers Demand End to Cloud Services for Immigration Agencies

More than 800 employees delivered a petition to management, condemning the Trump administration’s use of Google technology in ...

Microsoft: Post-Earnings Sell-Off Justified, But The Stock Remains A Buy

Microsoft Corporation reports a $625B backlog with 45% OpenAI risk; legacy moats and AI growth support the outlook. Check out ...

Want local vibe coding? This AI stack replaces Claude Code and Codex - and it's free

And then there's agentic AI coding. When a tool can help you do four years of product development in four days, the impact is world-changing. While vibe coding has its detractors (for good reason), AI ...

Qwen3-Coder-Next offers vibe coders a powerful open source, ultra-sparse model with 10x higher throughput for repo tasks

On SWE-Bench Verified, the model achieved a score of 70.6%. This performance is notably competitive when placed alongside significantly larger models; it outpaces DeepSeek-V3.2, which scores 70.2%, ...