Devstral small 2 24b severely underrated

I'm not a vibe coder, but I would like some basic assistance with my code. I'm posting this because I feel like the general consensus on Reddit was misleading about which models would be best for me to run locally on a 16gb GPU for code assistance. For context, I'm an early career academic with no research budget for a fancy GPU. I'm using my personal 16gb 4060ti to assist my coding. Right now I'm revisiting some numpy heavy code wrapped with.jit that I wrote three years ago and it implements a novel type of reinforcement learning that hasn't been published.