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.
InfoQ

LinkedIn Leverages GitHub Actions, CodeQL, and Semgrep for Code Scanning

LinkedIn has rebuilt its static application security testing (SAST) pipeline using GitHub Actions and custom workflows, ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Why Copilot's Auto Mode for AI Models Ignores Your Actual Task

Copilot's 'Auto' model picker in VS Code and Visual Studio currently routes to whatever model is most available and policy-compliant--not the one best matched to your prompt--while Microsoft/GitHub ...
InfoWorld

Visual Studio Code update shines on coding agents

Visual Studio Code 1.109 introduces enhancements for providing agents with more skills and context and managing multiple ...
IEEE

Semantic Odor Source Localization via Visual and Olfactory Integrated Navigation

Abstract: Odor Source Localization (OSL) is a technology that navigates a mobile robot to autonomously locate a hidden odor source. Unlike traditional OSL navigation algorithms, which rely solely on ...