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.
IEEE

Beyond Syntax: How Do LLMs Understand Code?

Abstract: Within software engineering research, Large Language Models (LLMs) are often treated as ‘black boxes’, with only their inputs and outputs being considered. In this paper, we take a machine ...
GitHub

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 ...
VentureBeat

The creator of Claude Code just revealed his workflow, and developers are losing their minds

When the creator of the world's most advanced coding agent speaks, Silicon Valley doesn't just listen — it takes notes. "If you're not reading the Claude Code best practices straight from its creator, ...