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.

I tested local AI on my M1 Mac, expecting magic - and got a reality check instead

At random, I chose glm-4.7-flash, from the Chinese AI startup Z.ai. Weighing in at 30 billion "parameters," or neural weights, GLM-4.7-flash would be a "small" large language model by today's ...
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Alibaba Cloud Ops MCP Server

Alibaba Cloud Ops MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides seamless integration with Alibaba Cloud APIs, enabling AI assistants to operate resources on Alibaba Cloud, ...