[k8si]

I suggest going through the exercise of seeing whether this is true quantitatively. Get a business-relevant NER dataset together (not CoNLL, preferably something that your boss or customers would care about), run it against Mistral/etc, look at the P/R/F1 scores, and ask "does this solve the problem that I want to solve with NER". If the answer is 'yes', and you could do all those things without reading the book or other NLP educational sources, then yeah you're right, job's finished.