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A quick list of their games, so you can easily add them to your blacklist, as per their own website and Steam developer page.

• Wardogs
• Killrun
• Battalion 1944
• Battalion: Legacy
• The Turing Test
• Pneuma: Breath of Life

When you open their website, the text ‘Be the change you want to see’ shows up before loading the rest of the page. Very interesting.

Also interesting is some history behind their Battalion 1944 game. From Wikipedia:

The project ended up being very controversial after the developers failed to launch the promised console versions despite selling keys for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One digital copies during the Kickstarter campaign. The development focused fully on the PC version and thousands of console gamers were left out of pocket with no game and no communication from Bulkhead.[10] The console version was officially cancelled on August 9, 2022, with the PC version going free to play.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battalion_1944

Looks like an absolute piece of shit of a studio.

Unfortunately that’s communist technology, so it’s banned for your own good.

Real patriots only drive pickups that burn through fuel like AI data centers burn through water.

Yes, I did make a Mistral account. Forgot to mention that I tested all of the mentioned chatbots on free plans, except Copilot, which I had the highest tier plan for, as part of my job. Needless to say, even on the highest tier Copilot performed the worst. Congratulations, Microsoft.

I do appreciate Mistral being European and maintaining better values than American competition. That’s why I feel bad rating it so low. Although as you said, many tasks that LLMs are useful for don’t require the cutting edge at all.

In fact, Mistral Vibe (I preferred the name Le Chat, but oh well) is probably more than enough for most people. It’s just that availability of much better models makes it look worse than it is.

There’s also the question of system prompts. ChatGPT has been known to work considerably better with a good prompt setup, to the point where it’s not one of the worst chatbots anymore. I was only testing the defaults. It’s entirely possible that setting the right system prompt for Mistral improves it noticeably.

At the end of the day, however, if I can run a small, open-weight model locally with comparable results - using a huge, cloud-based and closed model makes no sense to me. I’m not connecting to any cloud unless I really need to.

Alibaba is releasing Qwen 3.8 27B in a little over 3 hours from now, so I’ll have to try that too. Though I’ll probably wait for fine-tuned community releases to make a more detailed comparison.

True, it’s always important to be careful with chatbots, even when used for simple tasks.

From my experience, they work fairly well when asked to explain code or error logs. For reference, I mainly tested Gemini and Deepseek. Apparently Claude is the best for coding, but I haven’t really tried it yet.

Personally I’d avoid both Mistral and Copilot. I used to work on Copilot, so unfortunately had a lot of exposure to it. Tried Mistral for a while too.

These two are the worst LLMs I’ve used so far. Honestly probably worse than local Qwen with 27-35B parameters. I feel a little bad hating on a European company, but unfortunately it’s way behind competition. At least from my testing.

That’s not what it means.

if their continued involvement is deemed ethically unacceptable

Meaning their involvement in the projects or other business activities. As I understand it, depending on their behaviour after the violations committed, and maybe the nature of the work.

E.g., someone who previously committed sexual assault should probably not work on a project that is a manga series featuring scenes of similar nature.

I have no idea how they’d evaluate the first part, but I can appreciate the sentiment.

If you really want to contribute to some projects, the first step would be to take a course in that project’s programming language. There are many decent free courses on YouTube, and even more fantastic courses for very cheap on websites like Udemy or Skillshare.

Next, you’d probably want to keep learning the language (e.g., by solving LeetCode challenges), read more about programming and software development in general, as well as check out another course or a tutorial about the specific frameworks/libraries or even just paradigms that the project works with.

A good starting point is FreeCodeCamp on YouTube. Courses there are excellent for the proce of 0€. If you have difficulties with anything - you can always ask a chatbot. If you opt for courses on something like Udemy - you can always just ask the instructor and they’ll usually respond within 2 hours, timezone permitting.

The crew was told not to deviate from the designated route. They knew perfectly well there are mines. And so… they deviated from the designated route and exploded.

What the hell happened there? I need to know, but the article doesn’t say.

Previous Prisma Illya movie went hard as fuck, and was arguably one of the best entries in the Fate series. I don’t expect this one to come anywhere close, but who knows. I’d happily be surprised.

I wish it was a troll. I just can’t read.

Interesting how when ‘barely men’ revolted they managed to slaughter ’organized armies of real men’ 10x their number.