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.
ET CIO

7 Best AI Code Review Tools for DevOps Teams in 2026

Discover the leading AI code review tools reshaping DevOps practices in 2026, enhancing code quality, security, and team productivity with automated solutions.

Automated Accessibility Testing on the Web: Possibilities and Limitations

Tools can help check the accessibility of web applications – but human understanding is required in many areas.
IEEE

Optimizing Pre-Trained Code Embeddings With Triplet Loss for Code Smell Detection

Abstract: Code embedding represents code semantics in vector form. Although code embedding-based systems have been successfully applied to various source code analysis tasks, further research is ...
GitHub

PondPilot - Get your data in a row

PondPilot is a blazing-fast, lightweight, 100% client-side AI-enabled data exploration tool that helps you analyze local & remote data with zero setup. Powered by DuckDB-Wasm and integrated AI ...
The Hacker News

North Korea-Linked Hackers Target Developers via Malicious VS Code Projects

North Korean hackers abuse Visual Studio Code task files in fake job projects to deploy backdoors, spyware, and crypto miners ...
TechCrunch

Anthropic’s new Cowork tool offers Claude Code without the code

On Monday, Anthropic announced a new tool called Cowork, designed as a more accessible version of Claude Code. Built into the Claude Desktop app, the new tool lets users designate a specific folder ...
IEEE

LLM-Powered Low-Code/No-Code Data Analytics in Education and Workforce Development

Abstract: This study explores the large language model-powered low-code and no-code (LC/NC) data analytics methods and evaluates their advantages and risks. Then, we conducted an empirical study at a ...