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  • Debugging with Mistral: Learning, Not Just Fixing

    Depending on which social bubble one is into, people are drawn to letting LLMs do everything. Latest tools promise to fully configure or even manage entire server setups. While that sounds amazing (and I want to try it out some time) that approach has some downsides:

    1. Loss of control: I don’t really know what’s happening under the hood. If something breaks, I’m left in the dark.
    2. Loss of Learning: I want to know / learn how and why things (don’t) work.
    3. Digital Sovereignty: Relying on an external connection is creating a hard dependency that I want to avoid. And hosting my own LLM isn’t an option as my mini PC doesn’t have the RAM or power for that.

    So, while these tools are impressive, they’re not for me — at least not now or not in my private useacse of maintaining my main home-server.

    But, that’s no reason to not leverage it at all!

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  • GenAI coding needs more than just a Licence

    I just found this blog post from Rob Bowley in my RSS feed and one paragraph just so resonated with what I read and hear so much:

    For CEOs and founders hoping to benefit, the answer isn’t as simple as handing out Claude licences […]. It’s investing in the engineering culture and practices. Unglamorous, slow work, but there’s no way around it.

    Rob Bowley

    I’ve been trying and since a while now in my own projects and I can just say: to really leverage it, you must adjust the style of working. And this is a learning curve you must be willing to take.

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  • Mistral 3 Released

    Mistral AI has published Mistral 3, the latest version of their open-weight language model. The models are available under the Apache 2.0 license and, according to their benchmarks, outperform DeepSeek’s recent models in several key areas … well, let’s see.

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  • Mistral – the European ChatGPT

    OK, I admit that I’m sometimes too focused on technology to realise that not everyone is aware of all the different AI services out there. — This week, I mentioned Mistral.ai to a colleague and was surprised that he hadn’t heard of it. But, as I said, you can’t know everything.

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