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.
Game Rant

All Escape Tsunami For The Brainrots Codes in Fortnite

Nathan Round, part of GameRant's talented Game Guides Team, is the leading voice for Call of Duty guides. From meta loadouts to the best weapons for each season, he takes pride in crafting top-notch ...
Dark Reading

DPRK Actors Deploy VS Code Tunnels for Remote Hacking

A spear-phishing campaign by North Korean actors is abusing a legitimate feature of Microsoft Visual Studio (VS) Code to gain full remote control of targeted systems. In the campaign, discovered by ...
Visual Studio Magazine

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

Microsoft released new open-source quantum development tools, expanding the Quantum Development Kit. VS Code and GitHub Copilot now play a more central role in ...
Wall Street Journal

Claude Is Taking the AI World by Storm, and Even Non-Nerds Are Blown Away

It’s the moment software engineers, executives and investors turn their work over to Anthropic’s Claude AI—and then witness a thinking machine of shocking capability, even in an age awash in powerful ...
Wired

Anthropic’s Claude Cowork Is an AI Agent That Actually Works

Cowork is a user-friendly version of Anthropic’s Claude Code AI-powered tool that’s built for file management and basic computing tasks. Here’s what it's like to use it. This poor track record makes ...
MIT Technology Review

Generative coding

AI coding tools are rapidly changing how we produce software, and the industry is embracing it—perhaps at the expense of entry-level coding jobs. Generative AI’s ability to write software code has ...
MIT Technology Review

AI coding is now everywhere. But not everyone is convinced.

Developers are navigating confusing gaps between expectation and reality. So are the rest of us. Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented ...
CNET

How to Use Every Active Borderlands 4 SHiFT Code

Tyler is a writer under CNET's home energy and utilities category. He came to CNET straight out of college, where he graduated from Seton Hall with a bachelor's degree in journalism. For the past ...
Government Technology

Texas Contemplates Ethics Code for Government Use of AI

The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) has proposed a new statewide Code of Ethics for the use of artificial intelligence systems in government. The code, published in the Nov. 7 issue of ...
Forbes

From User Stories To Code: Using AI To Transform The Entire Software Development Lifecycle

Jyoti Shah is a Director of Applications Development, a GenAI tech leader, mentor, innovation advocate and Women In Tech advisor at ADP. When I first started leading enterprise software projects, the ...