Devstral for non-agentic tasks?
Hi Mistral team,
I'm curious to know if Devstral is also trained and suitable to handle code-related questions from scratch, without agentic/tool use or the need for a pre-existing code base?
For example: "Write me a snake game in python" where it outputs the code just in chat markdown.
Or is that outside the realm of Devstral and it's only supposed to be used with agents/tools?
Hey, yes even if it was trained to be a coding agent you can still use Devstral to chat. We propose two system prompts in the repo: one for Vibe and the other one to chat. Feel free to try but expect best performance for agentic tasks.
Thank you @juliendenize I appreciate you clearing that up for me as I wasn't sure. I will give it a try!
Yes, it can function as a general AI assistant like ChatGPT, including tool calling to search the web and so on. It also does creative writing tasks reasonably well too: it's pretty good as a dungeon master / game master.