Trying to Plug Open-Source Mistral Into an Agentic Coder Just Doesn't Work, Says Berman
MatthewBerman · x · 2026-10-07
Matthew Berman notes that replicating the Codex / Claude Code experience with an open-source model is surprisingly hard — attempting to plug Mistral 4 into an agentic coder simply failed, highlighting the tooling and compatibility gap open models still face in agentic coding.
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