I tried a Claude Code rival that's local, open source, and completely free - how it went

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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VAR: a new visual generation method elevates GPT-style models beyond diffusion & Scaling laws observed

🕹️ Try and Play with VAR! We provide a demo website for you to play with VAR models and generate images interactively. Enjoy the fun of visual autoregressive modeling! We provide a demo website for ...