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Forgive me for underestimating but I'd never heard of 'Block' before, and the title "Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI Launch the Agentic AI Foundation" reads a bit funny to me. Plus the bitcoin blurb on their site is also worth a chuckle - "Bitcoin is about access, not speculation. It’s designed to be open, fast, low-cost, and free from centralized control. It’s meant to empower people"
That website reminds me of the one…where a guy sold pixels on a website for like a buck and people basically bought ads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
Forgive me for underestimating but I'd never heard of 'Block' before, and the title "Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI Launch the Agentic AI Foundation" reads a bit funny to me. Plus the bitcoin blurb on their site is also worth a chuckle - "Bitcoin is about access, not speculation. It’s designed to be open, fast, low-cost, and free from centralized control. It’s meant to empower people"
Block is the new name for Square, also of CashApp.
So I'll focus on the block's contribtution, which is goose: https://github.com/block/goose Has it gotten better and good enough? I tried it a few months back and it was pretty crappy. And it's not because of bad models (I used it with the latest Claude at that time) but because of poor harness implementation and UI. Is it worth trying the latest version to see how it compares with Claude Code? I want OSS, model agnos…
That website reminds me of the one…where a guy sold pixels on a website for like a buck and people basically bought ads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
So I'll focus on the block's contribtution, which is goose: https://github.com/block/goose Has it gotten better and good enough? I tried it a few months back and it was pretty crappy. And it's not because of bad models (I used it with the latest Claude at that time) but because of poor harness implementation and UI. Is it worth trying the latest version to see how it compares with Claude Code? I want OSS, model agnos…
MIT license and model agnostic
I’d also keep a close eye on Toad which is launching this month:
So I'll focus on the block's contribtution, which is goose: https://github.com/block/goose Has it gotten better and good enough? I tried it a few months back and it was pretty crappy. And it's not because of bad models (I used it with the latest Claude at that time) but because of poor harness implementation and UI. Is it worth trying the latest version to see how it compares with Claude Code? I want OSS, model agnos…
I use Claude Sonnet 4.5, Gemini 3 Pro Preview, and GPT 5/5-mini with great results on OC. I initially tried it so I could decouple from VS Code extensions while still using my Github Copilot plan like I had been with Roo Code/Kilo Code, but have branched out to also using it with the Claude Code backend and their free models as they come and go.
Definitely worth trying if you haven't picked it up recently.
So I'll focus on the block's contribtution, which is goose: https://github.com/block/goose Has it gotten better and good enough? I tried it a few months back and it was pretty crappy. And it's not because of bad models (I used it with the latest Claude at that time) but because of poor harness implementation and UI. Is it worth trying the latest version to see how it compares with Claude Code? I want OSS, model agnos…
Instead, its strength tends to be a continued improvement over the long term, in a way that commercial software just can't sustain because it needs to show a return on investment.
Forgive me for underestimating but I'd never heard of 'Block' before, and the title "Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI Launch the Agentic AI Foundation" reads a bit funny to me. Plus the bitcoin blurb on their site is also worth a chuckle - "Bitcoin is about access, not speculation. It’s designed to be open, fast, low-cost, and free from centralized control. It’s meant to empower people"
https://blog.identity.foundation/block-contributes-to-dif/
This company seems to be mocking itself.
Forgive me for underestimating but I'd never heard of 'Block' before, and the title "Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI Launch the Agentic AI Foundation" reads a bit funny to me. Plus the bitcoin blurb on their site is also worth a chuckle - "Bitcoin is about access, not speculation. It’s designed to be open, fast, low-cost, and free from centralized control. It’s meant to empower people"
Same here. Never heard of them before. But the more you look around on their site, feels more and more like some parody company. They seem to be into everything - bitcoin, blockchain, decentralized this, decentralized that, something called TBD, then Web5 (what even is that?) https://blog.identity.foundation/block-contributes-to-dif/ https://tbd.website/ This company seems to be mocking itself.