Goose, Block’s open-source AI coding agent, is emerging as a free alternative to Anthropic’s Claude Code, as developers weigh offline control, rate limits, and the rising cost of AI coding tools.

Before we begin, I will share one cautionary note. In my testing of the free GitHub Copilot's programming prowess, the AI failed half of my tests. That's not great. Paid subscriptions offer access to ...

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Vibe coding lets you turn ideas into real projects without writing code. Top free tools include LlamaCoder for prompt-based code generation, Fragments for multi-model coding with personas, Bolt for ...

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AI has becoming increasingly important to the software development landscape and Google’s latest DORA research highlights ...

Thanks to new subscription plans and Chinese open-weight models, developers can have high-quality code generation on the cheap. Here are your best options. Many developers haven’t yet crossed over to ...