TL;DR: Mistral Medium 3.5 is a 128B open-weight model released April 29, 2026, with a 256K context window, configurable reasoning, and native multimodal input. It scores 77.6% on SWE-Bench Verified — close but not ahead of Claude Sonnet 4.6 — and ships alongside Vibe, a cloud coding agent that submits pull requests directly to GitHub without you babysitting it. API pricing is $1.50 per million inp
I like servers. Not in a "let me spend Saturday hand-tuning nginx" way. More in a "this $6 VPS is sitting right here and could probably run half my side projects" way. The weird part is that deploying to one still feels more complicated than it should. For a lot of small and medium web apps, the app itself is not the hard part. The annoying part is everything around it: building the app getting it