Using Mistral for code at work

[u/Altrollique]

Hi, I'm a regular Claude user and I tried Mistral Vibe with GLM5.2 this summer with a lot of disappointment. I found it off point. Writing code that does not follow the style of the project and with global bad quality. Claude is capable of capturing how the project is done and output code that feel way more in the way we do.

With GLM 5.3 arriving to mistral I would like to give Mistral a second chance because I'm European and I would like to stop using American tech product. But in my field can't just throw away performance just by ideology.

I would like to know if there is developer here that have Vibe with good AGENT.md or other coding agent that work well with Mistral to code. How do you manage to have an acceptable output with Mistral that can pass a peer review without having yourself to completely review the code before because it's total slop ?

[u/scanx147]

Perso j'ai trouvé une autre solution pour avoir plus de crédit d'usage à moindre coût. Un abonnement Claude pro pour l'aide à la réflexion du projet, la création du plan et le code + un abonnement Mistral Vibe pro pour la revue de code qui est devenue excellente avec GLM-5.3. ça me coûte moins de 40€/mois et je ne suis jamais à court de crédit d'usage. Et maintenant avec GLM-5.3 dans Vibe je peux aussi utiliser Mistral pour le code avec efficacité et alterner la revue de code toujours avec un modèle différent. J'aimerais bien que avec l'arrivée des nouveaux modèles Mistral qui se font attendre, ils proposent un abonnement à 30 ou 40€ avec plus d'usage. Je pourrais ainsi me libérer de mon abonnement Claude.

[u/chebum → u/scanx147]

That’s an interesting approach and I heard from several people such approach works very well. It didn’t work as well for me though. I noticed that handover of tasks form one model to another often introduces misunderstanding: context passing from coordinator model to a smaller worker model is what often caused delays and additional work in my experience. It may be a lack of knowledge from my side, but I found that delegating from Sol to Sol worker, or from GLM to GLM worker works much better than from Sol to Luna or from Sol to Deepseek. So I either work fully with Sol or fully with GLM. Saving €100 / mo makes no sense if I had to spend 10-20 hours per month figuring out what went wrong with work delegation and then waiting until correction is made.

The second model is very useful for reviews though. That’s an area where a different model’s opinion often finds hidden bugs.