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

I tried a Claude Code alternative that's local, open source, and completely free - how it works ...

Ai2 cooks up open-source coding agents with tech equivalent of ‘hot plate and frying pan’

The Seattle nonprofit built its new open-source coding agent with 32 GPUs and five researchers, a fraction of the resources used by big tech companies.

China’s Moonshot releases a new open-source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent

The company said that the model was trained on 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens.

'The proverbial random person in Nebraska may give up' says the co-author of a paper entitled 'Vibe coding kills open source'

It seems AI tools in the OSS space may already be having a negative effect.

Qwen3-Coder-Next offers vibe coders a powerful open source, ultra-sparse model with 10x higher throughput for repo tasks

On SWE-Bench Verified, the model achieved a score of 70.6%. This performance is notably competitive when placed alongside significantly larger models; it outpaces DeepSeek-V3.2, which scores 70.2%, ...
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Best Open-Source Coding Model that runs on Windows Laptops

If you are looking for the best Open-Source Coding model that runs on Windows 11/10 laptops, check out the list we have curated below. Microsoft Windows AI Foundry Devstral by Mistral Wizard Coder ...

Vibe Coding endangers the material basis for open-source projects

Given the vibe-coding boom, a study recommends a drastic step: open-source software should only be available for a fee.
Nature

Joint Source-Channel Coding Using Low-Density Parity-Check Codes

Joint source-channel coding (JSCC) represents a paradigm shift from the traditional separation of compression and error correction, aiming to harmonise the dual tasks ...