I was curious if Block's Goose agent, paired with Ollama and the Qwen3-coder model, could really replace Claude Code. Here's how it worked.

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It leverages Ollama as an LLM provider, an open-source tool to run models locally for free. If you're not familiar with Ollama, I found it to be extremely simple to use; you should give it a try! If ...