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.

I used Claude to vibe-code my wildly overcomplicated smart home

Somewhat reassured, I used the fully HA-integrated Claude Code to finish migrating most of my nearly 200 smart home devices.
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bigwhite/go-cache-prog

$GOCACHEPROG="./go-cache-prog --verbose" go install fmt 2025/03/04 10:47:59 Using cache directory: /Users/tonybai/.gocacheprog 2025/03/04 10:47:59 Received request ...
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Visual Studio Code adds support for agent skills

An experimental feature in VS Code 1.108, Agent Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that GitHub Copilot can load for specialized tasks. Visual Studio Code 1.108, the latest ...
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AI Code Generation Prompts Examples (Python)

The purpose of this repository is to provide a few sample prompts used in order to create a simple Python GUI for the Linux desktop project. I created this repository and wrote these prompts on March ...