One Line or a Config File
Building a small MCP server and wiring it into Vibe by hand, and my verdict after a semester of choosing Mistral: viable, sometimes the right tool, but a compromise.
Mistral
Mind Your Tokens
What I took from two days on LLM APIs: how Mistral and Anthropic want to be prompted, why every message costs you the whole conversation, and where skills fit in.
One Prompt, Half a Tetris
Trying to build Tetris for this site with Mistral Vibe in one prompt, what broke, and why the developer still has to own the idea.
Ragnhild Remembers Nothing
How a grilling session changed my plan for Ragnhild, what the pipeline looks like, and the GDPR and AI Act choices behind it.
Enter Ragnhild
Naming Ragnhild, and working out how to build it with Mistral while moving to EU-based tools.