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.

Meet Project Genie from Google, a 'world model' it calls a stepping stone to AGI

Google has launched a new AI experiment called Project Genie, a tool that lets users build their own interactive virtual ...