I’ve been following the discussion around Mistral’s latest Devstral release, and it’s got me thinking about something that’s been bugging me for a while now. We’re at this fascinating crossroads where AI models are becoming increasingly specialised, yet most of us are still thinking about them like they’re one-size-fits-all solutions.

The conversation around Devstral versus Codestral perfectly illustrates this shift. Someone in the community explained it brilliantly - Devstral is the “taskee” while Codestral is the “tasker.” One’s designed for autonomous tool use and agentic workflows, the other for raw code generation. It’s like having a project manager versus a skilled developer on your team - they’re both essential, but they excel at completely different things.