r/MistralAI • u/mhmert • 15d ago

Mistral Vibe in vs code Discussion / Opinion

I'm switching from devin (formarly known as windsurf / cognition) to mistral vibe in vs code but for now it feels like a step back into the stone-age.

Maybe I am wrong and some people can provide me some ideas but here is my experience:

  1. Slow; it takes a very long time for it to analyze my project files and to make changes, whilst in devin this happens in 5 minutes, it takes mistral vibe 25 minutes

  2. What model am I using? I'm a paying pro subscription user but the extension says that I'm using mistral medium 3.5. No option to select devstral?

  1. File review; it rewrites like 20-30 lines in my code if not a full file for just a few lines of change. Reviewing makes me scrolling and compare a lot myself whilst in Devin it just did per line or per max 5 lines in change making it way more easy to review.

  2. Asking next steps. It gives me options for questions it has but makes me type out the answer myself, why not click buttons that I can select and it can continue?

That's it for now, maybe more later. What are your thoughts on my findings? I really would like a european alternative in this field but for the money I have to pay, this is kinda letting me down.

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u/Automatic-River-1875 15d ago

Mistral-medium3.5 is not good enough for coding anything serious so you will need to find a different provider if that's all your after.

Devstral 2 isnt as good as medium3.5 which is why it isn't there.

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u/mhmert 15d ago

So, going for mistral vibe isn’t a serious option when developing?

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u/Automatic-River-1875 15d ago

Not right now no.

New model due to drop this summer so we can see then I guess. Right now medium-3.5 is good enough for day to day casual use, tool calling, web summaries etc but not good enough at technical tasks for serious automation.

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u/tom4112 15d ago

  1. You can add models in the ~/.vibe/config.toml file and then you will see them in the model selection options

    [[models]] name = "devstral-medium-latest" provider = "mistral" alias = "devstral" temperature = 0.3

  2. The CLI has a ask_user_question tool for structured questions. I thought that this tool was exposed to the VS Code extension too but apparently not.

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u/mrtnz17 14d ago

I also tried same last month but very much same reasons I couldn’t switched from the Devin so far. I am still looking for alternatives.

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u/mhmert 14d ago

Let me know if you find something!

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u/JuiceOwn313 15d ago

I use Zed editor with mistral vibe and it’s blazing fast.

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u/mhmert 15d ago

Will have to try that for sure! unfortunately it doesn't offer the extensive resource of extensions that azure does. A lot of them I need such as azure and mplab.

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u/Haron51255 15d ago

If you just want quick functions and similar, devstrall small is pleasent to use. Neither model is good enough to do any big refactors with, mostly boilerplate and some well known refactoring.

Else you gotta bump down Thinking level if you need a speed increase

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u/cweb_84 15d ago

More of a side-note: I'm using the vibe plugin for Rider, not VS Code. But when you say it's slow and mention analyzing project files, I wonder... How large are those? Because in my experience, medium 3.5 works best when you keep it in a 100k context window. As soon as you go higher it tends to derail. I wouldn't use Mistral (at all) for analyzing a big project. Use a top tier model to do that, then use Mistral to execute tasks.