Goose, Block’s open-source AI coding agent, is emerging as a free alternative to Anthropic’s Claude Code, as developers weigh offline control, rate limits, and the rising cost of AI coding tools.

Goose acts as the agent that plans, iterates, and applies changes. Ollama is the local runtime that hosts the model. Qwen3-coder is the coding-focused LLM that generates results. If you've been ...

Two tools that have recently landed, taken together, define what the next phase of AI agent competition looks like. On5, Anthropic released Remote Control for Claude Code — a feature that lets ...

Free local AI is promising, but wasted time costs more than subscriptions. Random, unexplained edits made the code worse each iteration. Without screenshots, fixing Xcode errors became a slog. Well, ...