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Devstral

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701 points mfiguiere | 1 comments | 21 May 25 14:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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simonw ◴[21 May 25 17:30 UTC] No.44053886[source]▶
The first number I look at these days is the file size via Ollama, which for this model is 14GB https://ollama.com/library/devstral/tags

I find that on my M2 Mac that number is a rough approximation to how much memory the model needs (usually plus about 10%) - which matters because I want to know how much RAM I will have left for running other applications.

Anything below 20GB tends not to interfere with the other stuff I'm running too much. This model looks promising!

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nico ◴[21 May 25 21:32 UTC] No.44056502[source]▶
Any agentic dev software you could recommend that runs well with local models?

I’ve been using Cursor and I’m kind of disappointed. I get better results just going back and forth between the editor and ChatGPT

I tried localforge and aider, but they are kinda slow with local models

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zackify ◴[22 May 25 03:26 UTC] No.44058473[source]▶
I used devstral today with cline and open hands. Worked great in both.

About 1 minute initial prompt processing time on an m4 max

Using LM studio because the ollama api breaks if you set the context to 128k.

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elAhmo ◴[22 May 25 10:08 UTC] No.44060526[source]▶
How is it great that it takes 1 minute for initial prompt processing?
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1. cheema33 ◴[24 May 25 12:12 UTC] No.44080572[source]▶
That time is just for the very first prompt. It is basically the startup time for the model. Once it is loaded, it is much much faster in responding to your queries. Depending on your hardware of course.