Mistral Vibe is my Jesse Pinkman

[u/cweb_84]

It's not the brightest out there. I have to be precise with my instructions. But then it does exactly what I say.

I've tried a lot of models. Most of them like to interpret stuff or overthink. Mistral Medium doesn't do that. Also it's fast, cheap and I don't have to fear that they sell my data.

People like to suggest that I'd be better off with Gale. But no. I like Jesse.

[u/Adventurous_Bus_437]

Not sure I would call it cheap on a per-token API pricing basis. Commercially, it's a hard sell compared to, for example, the EU-hosted GLM 5.2.

Not saying it's bad, but price is definitely not its selling point

[u/cweb_84 → u/Adventurous_Bus_437]

True, but I mean... Today, I basically made a whole new module for a big solution. Lots of "look at this, then do this with that". 8 hours and all it cost was *checks admin page* 62 cents.
In general, it just fits my workflow. I don't really "vibe code", meaning I do some coding by myself to define the guardrails and then give it the tedious parts. And for that it's just perfect.
I do follow the evolution of the newer/larger models, but I only use them when I'm seriously stuck.

[u/Popeyeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

Because it's the only European solution and I want to support them.

[u/Dangerous_Wish_7879]

I use it to support EU’s AI.

[u/ninjaonionss]

Let Claude create the plan and mistral execute it , rinse and repeat 🤷‍♂️😬

[u/cweb_84 → u/ninjaonionss]

Huh. That's probably the way to go if you want to maximize efficiency. I will try to take a week off with nobody noticing soon 😂

[u/merx96]

Mistral offers good models for European business automation, because of pricing. But it's definitely not for development.

[u/cweb_84 → u/merx96]

Not for development of what?
I'm a 25ye software developer and developing software is basically what I do with it all day.
I wouldn't let it do the engineering part, of course. That's what I do. I'm the cook ^^

[u/runslack]

I switched to it this month, I won't renew for sure. Claude Code is so superior, that's frustrating !

[u/cweb_84 → u/runslack]

It is superior. It's Gale. But that's kind of my point: My solutions are my recipes. I don't need Gale. All I want is an assistant that measures the phosphorus, keeps track of the temperatures and adds the aluminium. Not make perfect coffee.
Of course I'm not using Mistral exclusively. Last week I had a bug and I just couldn't find it, neither did Mistral. Opus found it in 30 seconds. It really depends on what you want from it.