Want local vibe coding? This AI stack replaces Claude Code and Codex - and it's free

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• Goose acts as the agent that plans, iterates, and applies changes.
• Ollama is the local runtime that hosts the model.
• Qwen3-coder is the coding-focused LLM that generates results.

If you've been programming for any number of years, you've pretty much lived through a bunch of hype cycles. Whether it's a new development environment, a new language, a new plugin, or some new online service with an oh-so-powerful time-saving API, it's all "revolutionary" and "world-changing," at least according to the PR reps hawking The Big New Thing.

And then there's agentic AI coding. When a tool can help you do four years of product development in four days, the impact is world-changing. While vibe coding has its detractors (for good reason), AI coding agents like OpenAI's Codex ...