Opposite advice. It's very useful to me for dev and general tasks.

Been using Claude in parallele, it's better not not that much, just 10x (or 100x ?) more expensive.

Mistral's coding models aren't on par with current SOTA US and Chinese models if that's what you're referring to, but I rather like their OCR models.

> After paying for Mistral and using it for a while I genuinely hated it

For OCR?

Same, I got a refund 3 days later. It is unusable.

what did you use it for and when?

The armies of people desperate to defend mistral, scouring the internet for any of the hundreds of negative posts made about it daily is pathetic. There's a reason it needs 'fanboys' and 'defenders'... it sucks. Id have loved to use a European alternative, but Europeans need to get serious and actually offer an alternative that has value other than "it's trash, but it has a Made in Europe badge".