Goose AI

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Goose AI claims to build entire projects from scratch, write and execute code, debug failures, orchestrate workflows, and interact with external APIs. It also runs locally, is open source and claims to be completely autonomous.

Why I think this tool should be added

Hey, I used to contribute to the Reddit and now I’m here.

As someone who codes, I have a lot of opinions about Vibe coding, but I feel like in the same way with drug harm reduction that if people are going to use llms to do this, they might as well do it in the least harmful most productive way possible.

I found this llm tool because the Human Rights Foundation will be doing an event in a day or three where they’re going to be interviewing the people who helped develop this tool. They are going to feature it and others too and I quote “how open-source AI agents such as Goose can help political dissidents and human rights defenders around the world.”

From my little time researching and running this program it seems to hit all the qualifications that we look for in terms of using llms more safer. It runs locally and it is completely open source from what I can tell.

I will note that this is being developed by the Block group which is a technology company that has its hooks in many different tech fields probably most famously of integrating tech into Bitcoins ecosystem. I don’t know if that’s a red flag but I thought I would mention it here.

I figured that this might be a useful addition to the AI Chat section possibly making it as a new section for more “advance” users. I figured that because I don’t have the time and resources yet to do a full deep dive that I would put this in the suggestions and have people way smarter than me. Evaluate it and determine if this would be something that would be a useful addition and if they practice what they preach.

I will know again that I am not an employee or affiliated with Block, I literally discovered it cuz I got invited to an event that will be featuring it and I never heard of it before thus my explanation above.

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I personally think it’s really cool and I really want tools like this to succeed in the long run so I don’t have to keeping sending my data to M$ and Anthropic.

However, as a pro software dev myself, I don’t have the time to wait around for my local agent to generate code. I want to move as fast as possible. I also don’t have a super expensive (>$10k) PC that can run the best open source models to justify using this professionally. I think Claude Sonnet was estimate to be a 200B model? I can’t match that locally on my 16GB VRAM GPU. Furthermore, I don’t think any of the open sourced models can match up to Sonnet/Opus 4.5.

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Goose does allow you to use proprietary models through their APIs, and then you have an open-source application running locally. Of course, not ideal to still be sending information off to those providers, but at least I’d feel more comfortable in this scenario vs the Claude/ChatGPT apps scanning who knows what.
The main problem with a lot of these open source desktop apps/coding tools (usually TUIs), is that they are all terribly buggy. Tis the curse of vibe coding

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You just described the github copilot extension: GitHub - microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat: Copilot Chat extension for VS Code that’s built into vscode. This is what I use for agentic coding. It’s also an open sourced app that calls remote models and you can customize it to call whatever too. That functionality alone is not interesting anymore.

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I think possibly the big difference between these two is that goose is made by an independent person and according to what he said, base pays his salary but he’s working on it by himself and will walk away if he breaks with the company. While GitHub isn’t a taurusally owned by Microsoft, which is why some people have a left of that repo. It’s really splitting hairs in my opinion, but that’s the only thing I could think of. Otherwise, I agree with you.