None of my tasks use reasoning though (reasoning actually kills the performance) so perhaps that’s why. Still, I just had to rewrite my pipeline, and mistral was both faster, cheaper, and substantially better than any alternative

There’s a pretty significant difference between saying someone tripled their prices, and a temporary promotion ended. It’s even more so the case if someone is using it as an example for raising prices as a trend.

I’m 100% in the camp that prices are going up and quality is going down; companies are retiring models and requiring you to use more expensive ones. This has happened to me and there are dozens of examples that one can point to.

But a promotion ending is a strawman argument and does the point a disservice.

I’m not making a judgement call about which is better, but it was widely accepted in tech before the advent of LLMs that you just fundamentally lack a sense of understanding as a reviewer vs an author. It was a meme that engineers would rather just rewrite a complicated feature than fix a bug, because understanding someone else’s code was too much effort.

Edit: Whoops read your question wrong. I do a bunch of NLP on different languages, and use LLMs to pad out and interpret the data. Asking for things like translations, alternatives, transliterations; associating and validating data; transferring data from one language to another; segmentation and cross lingual alignment; the list goes on.

I did manage to get higher quality in the end, so it’s not entirely a regression. But older LLMs were much more capable with less prompting at interpreting disparate data and tying it together.

Most of the work I do does not really have a “right answer,” just a lot of wrong ones, which I think is what trips up LLMs. If I turn on reasoning for any step in my pipeline, the token count goes up 100 fold and the quality gets cut in half.

Edit 2: I did have to move off of GPT though to get the improvements mentioned. Go mistral!

I would say models entered a bottleneck a long time ago. My personal opinion is now they are overfitting newer models on coding and "agentic" capabilities at great expense of general abilities in other domains.

Well, technically I think most of the community in indifferent. But from the discourse about the topic, I feel like I see pretty even splits.

(I'm normally posting in the context of my startup - although I try to keep the self promotion to a minimum and always contribute to the "conversation," if LLMs replying to one another can be called such).

For what it's worth, I created a community for paying users of Phrasing that has been going really well. I think free online communities may be going away, but there may be a future in exclusive/paid communities.

I'd love to use Mistral for more tasks, but Mistral Large doesn't quite cut it for all tasks. So on the one hand, I'm excited there is another model, and presumably more performant based on the price? But the fact it's a "Medium" and 5x the price of the Large definitely concerns me.

The entire release is also about Vibe Coding, and so I'm not even sure if this model is applicable outside of coding, or even worth testing.

Both Clojure and Elixir really changed the way I think about programming. They’ve both basically ruined me as far as other languages go. Structural editing + repo driven development in Clojure, BEAM + pattern matching in elixir.

But there is something just infinitely more fun about writing Clojure code, and insanely satisfying. I’m eagerly awaiting the day that jank takes off and I can start building native mobile apps in Clojure (and who knows, maybe some web backend tech stack will spring up around it!)

Personally I bundle it all up into “Liquid Glass et al”, but the glass effects are the least of the issues for me. I could maybe get over an ugly design; design is subjective after all. But iOS 26 is just disfunctionally bad design (imho)

And besides a few odd posts on x, I haven’t heard anyone techy speak positively about it.

Maybe I’m the one in a bubble, but I’m seriously considering switching from Apple as a lifelong Apple user, largely because of the UI changes (Liquid Glass et al), so I don’t think the complaints about it are overblown.

I don’t know anyone who doesn’t eat processed foods because of marketing or advertising or lobbying they’ve been exposed to. There is a solid rational to eat whole foods, and anyone I know who does not eat processed foods does it because they’d rather eat whole foods.

There is a ton of research to suggest processed foods are safe to eat. One could also make the argument these are all funded by their own lobbying groups. The truth of the matter is nutrition is complicated, there is likely more than one answer, and we definitely do not know them.

Not everyone who disagreed has been swindled by some corporation.

HCl is toxic when ingested btw. The fact it is in your body does not mean it’s safe to consume.

And to extract pure protein from a pea is exactly what I would consider ultra-processed. The checmicals used to separate the protein from the pea are included in the final product. At its purest, you’re at least drenching it in HCl. At its worst, it’s being soaked with who knows what.

Sure maybe it’s cleaned well enough to “not matter” but I think it’s perfectly reasonable to find that a concern and not want to consume it.

And that’s just pea protein, I don’t even want to know the aggregate of all the ingredients and manufacturing process of the “patties”.

Nowadays it’s all fake meat products which I would never put in my body, and there’s this weird social pressure where I’m being silly by “refusing to eat vegan foods”.

Fruits and vegetables and legumes are delicious, I will eat all of them.

Bring back bean burgers!

I would say veganism is more trendy at the moment. That doesnt discredit anything about the vegan diet.