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.

Developers say AI coding tools work—and that’s precisely what worries them

Software developers have spent the past two years watching AI coding tools evolve from advanced autocomplete into something ...
InfoWorld

8 old programming languages developers won’t quit

Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages developers still use daily, and what they’re good for. The computer revolution has ...
The Indianapolis Star

Why Pascal Siakam's foundation chose IMSA-West for partnership, AI program

Pacers All-Star Pascal Siakam's PS43 Foundation has partnered with an Indiana school for the first time. The foundation donated two educational software platforms to the Indiana Math and Sciences ...
ZDNet

Claude Code made an astonishing $1B in 6 months - and my own AI-coded iPhone app shows why

Claude Code hit $1 billion fast by transforming real developer workflows. Agentic coding built my complex iPhone app in just 11 days. Early command-line access gave Claude Code a huge adoption edge.
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 ...
PC Gamer

Great, now even malware is using LLMs to rewrite its code, says Google, as it documents new phase of 'AI abuse'

AI Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it AI Steam updates AI disclosure form to specify that it's focused on ...
FIU News

Even before they can read, young children are visualizing letters and other objects with the same strategies adults use

What do puzzles, gymnastics, writing and using maps all have in common? They all rely on people’s ability to visualize objects as they spin, flip or turn in space, without physically moving them. This ...
The Hill

Kenny Loggins objects to song’s use in AI Trump video: ‘Created with the sole purpose of dividing us’

(NEXSTAR) – Kenny Loggins isn’t a fan of President Donald Trump’s latest AI video. Loggins, a musician well known for songs including “I’m Alright,” “This Is It” and “Footloose,” issued a public ...
Futurism

Amateurs Using AI to “Vibe Code” Are Now Begging Real Programmers to Fix Their Botched Software

Welcome to the future, where the vibes are bad in almost every meaningful respect — but where you do, at the very least, get to “vibe code,” or use an AI model to write code and even build entire ...
IEEE

Using GenAI to Assess Design Patterns in Student-Written Code

Abstract: As programming education scales, evaluating student code becomes increasingly challenging. In object-oriented programming (OOP) courses, design patterns are crucial for teaching maintainable ...