I sometimes ask my son to come to my computer and try to explain what I am trying to solve. He is in high school and understands the basic idea of what I am explaining to him. Usually, while explaining, I find the solution.
Which one do you use? Llama (1/2) and ChatGPT 3.5 are the ones I've tested so far and they're both kind of terrible at logic.
ChatGPT 4 is vastly superior to ChatGPT 3.5 in my experience, although it still fails at logic sometimes.
Mixtral 8x7B. Short of that (high ram requirements), I've also found Mistral v0.2 to be pretty solid for a 7b model.
YMMV though - it's going to depend on your use cases.
Do you have instructions and RAM requirements for running that model? Llama.cpp?
I just use Ollama[1] - makes it incredibly easy to get going on MacOS, and can be run on linux/WSL also. RAM required will depend, but generally to run Mixtral at reasonable quantization levels (e.g. Q4) you're going to want 36GB or more.
What do you mean? What do you type into it to get unstuck?
Same way you'd bounce an idea or situation off a knowledgable colleague when you're stuck. Concise summary of the problem, the desired outcome, and finish the prompt with something to the tune of '[what are/walk me through] some ways I could [do/get around/prevent] this'