Goose was fun, even if NixOS only had an ancient version in its repo and flatly refused to run Qwen3-coder.
However Aider runs Qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-fp16 without complaint.
At an image size of 61GB, qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-fp1 is serious coding business.
Check it out on https://aider.chat/
A Few Notes, Aider:
- Requires explicit permission to access any file, it can’t run amok …
- Goes for it as soon as you give it permission, so watch out.
- Has its own built-in Git Repo and commits every action.


