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I am finding that a 120B MoE is hitting the sweet spot for local hosted. Right now that takes a 2K strix halo, a 4k GB10 machine, or a 5k Mac Pro. 2 years from now I think hardware will take us back to the 2k ish range with good performance. I love my dual GPU setup (2AMD Radeon r9700 64GB vram) but it costs 5x electricity than my GX10 (GB10 chip inside) and since layers are landing in system memo", "context": "", "use_case": "local coding model", "switched_from": "", "story": "Things I Think I Think... Preferring Local OSS LLMs"}, {"id": 753541904, "item_id": 47096369, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096369", "by": "Eupolemos", "date": "2026-02-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Devstral 2 and Gemini 3 daily.", "excerpt": "That is a very broad and silly position to take, especially in this thread. I use Devstral 2 and Gemini 3 daily.", "context": "", "use_case": "Daily use", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI"}, {"id": 742977408, "item_id": 46436088, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436088", "by": "whazor", "date": "2025-12-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "A competitive coding like devstral 2 runs fast enough to be very helpful", "excerpt": "A competitive coding like devstral 2 runs fast enough to be very helpful: https://www.hardware-corner.net/devstral-2-hardware-requirements/ The required hardware is fits the budget for a professional developer. Putting LLMs in the cloud allows the hardware to be utilised better and to have sharding of big models.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Future of Software Development Is Software Developers"}, {"id": 741314848, "item_id": 46332178, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46332178", "by": "amarcheschi", "date": "2025-12-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Devstral 2 should be above", "excerpt": "Devstral 2 should be above https://mistral.ai/news/devstral-2-vibe-cli Though I haven't checked other benchmarks and they only report swe", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral OCR 3"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 739309600, "item_id": 46206850, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46206850", "by": "badsectoracula", "date": "2025-12-09", "stance": "warn", "quote": "doesn't look particularly permissively licensed (or open-source)", "excerpt": "> Devstral 2 ships under a modified MIT license, while Devstral Small 2 uses Apache 2.0. Both are open-source and permissively licensed to accelerate distributed intelligence. Uh, the \"Modified MIT license\" here[0] for Devstral 2 doesn't look particularly permissively licensed (or open-source): > 2. You are not authorized to exercise any rights under this license if the global consolidated monthly revenue of your com", "context": "", "use_case": "Open-weight coding model", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["coding via api", "local coding model", "daily use", "svg and website generation", "open-weight coding model"], "compared": [{"slug": "mistral-medium", "name": "Mistral Medium", "co": 1, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "llm", "name": "llm", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "mistral-vibe", "name": "Mistral Vibe", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claude-code", "name": "Claude Code", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205437", "title": "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI", "mentions": 5}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325340", "title": "Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949642", "title": "Mistral Medium 3.5", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919725", "title": "France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47793411", "title": "Claude Opus 4.7", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47610245", "title": "Things I Think I Think... Preferring Local OSS LLMs", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"warn": 1, "neutral": 3, "recommend": 2}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 1, "compare": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2026-05": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 773334529, "item_id": 48333408, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48333408", "by": "kioleanu", "date": "2026-05-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "they\u2019re retiring some (most?) of the dedicated models like devstral gradually through August", "excerpt": "I just got an email from them saying that they\u2019re retiring some (most?) of the dedicated models like devstral gradually through August and one should now use the general model. Cost grows exponentially Devstral 2 (devstral-2512 and devstral-latest) \u2192 We recommend transitioning to Mistral Medium 3.5 (mistral-medium-3-5 with reasoning_effort set to \"high\"), a stronger model, priced $1.5/$7.5 per million input/output to", "context": "", "use_case": "coding via API", "switched_from": "", "story": "Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris"}, {"id": 767226784, "item_id": 47951674, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951674", "by": "spijdar", "date": "2026-04-29", "stance": "compare", "quote": "The Devstral 2 model even looks slightly better", "excerpt": "Drawing SVGs isn't something I really care about either, and I think it's still to \"qualitatively compare\" e.g. \"Opus's pelican vs GPT's pelican vs GLM's pelican\" or whatever the kids are doing. But what stands out to me is that it's barely able to draw a \"recognizable\" pelican at all. The Devstral 2 model even looks slightly better, though maybe I'm splitting hairs: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/9/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral Medium 3.5"}, {"id": 766778675, "item_id": 47923667, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923667", "by": "qznc", "date": "2026-04-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "not limits for devstral-2", "excerpt": "I use Le Chat free tier. Not as good as ChatGPT free tier but sufficient for 90% of my uses. I tried Mistral Vibe (Claude Code equivalent) free tier for a week. I hit web_search limits but not limits for devstral-2. For a working mode where you watch it closely (same way I use Claude Code), it is fine.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American"}, {"id": 765032224, "item_id": 47814514, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47814514", "by": "berkes", "date": "2026-04-18", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Claude is far better in such a \"benchmark\" than e.g. Devstral2.", "excerpt": "> is a job in itself right now. Yes, exactly. I consider this the core of my job now: herding agents. I reminds me of the time that I \"herded\" juniors, interns and new hires very much. And my experience is that OpenCode et.al. don't do a \"Good Enough\" job. It's better, than e.g. Devstral2, but without guidance, still not sufficient. I think that mostly has to do with a combination of my experience and standards and o", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Opus 4.7"}, {"id": 761811088, "item_id": 47613193, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613193", "by": "androiddrew", "date": "2026-04-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "a dense model like Devstral2 24B slaps on the Dual GPU setup", "excerpt": "I love local first. I am finding that a 120B MoE is hitting the sweet spot for local hosted. Right now that takes a 2K strix halo, a 4k GB10 machine, or a 5k Mac Pro. 2 years from now I think hardware will take us back to the 2k ish range with good performance. I love my dual GPU setup (2AMD Radeon r9700 64GB vram) but it costs 5x electricity than my GX10 (GB10 chip inside) and since layers are landing in system memo", "context": "", "use_case": "local coding model", "switched_from": "", "story": "Things I Think I Think... Preferring Local OSS LLMs"}, {"id": 758780912, "item_id": 47423807, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47423807", "by": "IanCal", "date": "2026-03-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "devstral-2512 devstral-latest and devstral-medium-latest are all devstral 2", "excerpt": "I got really lost on their site, but to help a bit according to their model page devstral-2512 devstral-latest and devstral-medium-latest are all devstral 2 https://docs.mistral.ai/models/devstral-2-25-12 labs-devstral-small-2512 and devstral-small-latest are devstral small 2 devstral-medium-2507 is devstral 1.0 and devstral-small-2507 is devstral small 1.1", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral AI Releases Forge"}, {"id": 753541904, "item_id": 47096369, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096369", "by": "Eupolemos", "date": "2026-02-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Devstral 2 and Gemini 3 daily.", "excerpt": "That is a very broad and silly position to take, especially in this thread. I use Devstral 2 and Gemini 3 daily.", "context": "", "use_case": "Daily use", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI"}, {"id": 742977408, "item_id": 46436088, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436088", "by": "whazor", "date": "2025-12-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "A competitive coding like devstral 2 runs fast enough to be very helpful", "excerpt": "A competitive coding like devstral 2 runs fast enough to be very helpful: https://www.hardware-corner.net/devstral-2-hardware-requirements/ The required hardware is fits the budget for a professional developer. Putting LLMs in the cloud allows the hardware to be utilised better and to have sharding of big models.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Future of Software Development Is Software Developers"}, {"id": 741314848, "item_id": 46332178, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46332178", "by": "amarcheschi", "date": "2025-12-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Devstral 2 should be above", "excerpt": "Devstral 2 should be above https://mistral.ai/news/devstral-2-vibe-cli Though I haven't checked other benchmarks and they only report swe", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral OCR 3"}, {"id": 739592656, "item_id": 46224541, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46224541", "by": "simonw", "date": "2025-12-10", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used Mistral's own API models for this.", "excerpt": "I haven't run the 123B one locally yet. I used Mistral's own API models for this.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"}, {"id": 739367857, "item_id": 46210491, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210491", "by": "stonemetal12", "date": "2025-12-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": ">\"Open Source\" is nebulous No it isn't it is well defined. The only people who find it \"nebulous\" are people who want the benefits without upholding the obligations. https://opensource.org/definition-annotated", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"}, {"id": 739332961, "item_id": 46208310, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208310", "by": "baq", "date": "2025-12-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "but can it recreate the spacejam 1996 website?", "excerpt": "but can it recreate the spacejam 1996 website? https://www.spacejam.com/1996/jam.html", "context": "", "use_case": "SVG and website generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"}, {"id": 739314001, "item_id": 46207125, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207125", "by": "simonw", "date": "2025-12-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "llm -m mistral/devstral-2512", "excerpt": "llm install llm-mistral llm mistral refresh llm -m mistral/devstral-2512 \"Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle\" https://tools.simonwillison.net/svg-render#%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20400%20200%22%20width%3D%22400%22%20height%3D%22200%22%3E%0A%20%20%3C!--%20Background%20(light%20blue%20sky)%20--%3E%0A%20%20%3Crect%20width%3D%22400%22%20height%3D%22200%22%", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"}, {"id": 739309600, "item_id": 46206850, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46206850", "by": "badsectoracula", "date": "2025-12-09", "stance": "warn", "quote": "doesn't look particularly permissively licensed (or open-source)", "excerpt": "> Devstral 2 ships under a modified MIT license, while Devstral Small 2 uses Apache 2.0. Both are open-source and permissively licensed to accelerate distributed intelligence. Uh, the \"Modified MIT license\" here[0] for Devstral 2 doesn't look particularly permissively licensed (or open-source): > 2. You are not authorized to exercise any rights under this license if the global consolidated monthly revenue of your com", "context": "", "use_case": "Open-weight coding model", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"}]}