NAN132: The AI-Augmented Engineer

Yeah, so I, you know, as a lot of people in networking, I think we're, as new technologies come out, networking touches everything, you know.

So, you know, first, maybe not the first thing, but, you know, a few years ago was security.

So most network engineers, all of a sudden I had to be a cybersecurity engineer because you're also a firewall engineer.

And then it was SD-WAN and then it was zero trust network access.

And so we just keep adding these things on top of each other and For the mid-sized organization that have a smaller network team, you have a few network guys of fat and you're trying to do everything and you're always putting out fires and don't have enough time for everything.

So I really just got interested in how can I use AI and AI tooling to alleviate some of the... log in on a Wednesday morning and there's a new Cisco zero day and completely ruins my week.

How can I alleviate some of that stuff and some of the mundane stuff and allow me to have some more time in my day to focus on the bigger projects and get to that massive backlog of things? And so...

I like to call kind of the...

What I think in the back of my head when I'm making videos is I like to call it Legacy Larry.

So Legacy Larry is the network engineer that's still logging into devices manually.

They don't have much automation because I haven't had time to get there yet.

And so how do I talk to that audience and how do I get them... onboard and to deliver them content that's, you know, not hyped up.

There's so much hype with AI and it's, you know, it's hard to kind of parse out what's real, what's not real.

What can I actually use on the job versus what can't I? So, yeah, I just, that's kind of where the channel started.

And then I...

I have kind of the workflow for my videos is I wanted it to be kind of interactive.

So with every video, I also post a GitHub repository with it, which has like a downloadable YAML file for your lab.

Mm-hmm.

So you can basically just download the ammo file and upload it to Cisco CML.

Everything so far is, is able to just be used on the, uh, the CML free license.

And then, um, there's a blog post that goes with it as well, just cause you know, I'm still new on camera.

So sometimes I, sometimes I ramble, don't formulate my thoughts well.

So I have, you know, a blog post that goes along with it, that it, uh, kind of hits it at a higher level.

Um, and, So yeah, every video is just meant to be interactive.

You can watch along.