MCP - Bits in Flight

MCP

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AI Won't Replace Network Engineers

AI Won't Replace Network Engineers

After spending some time working with model context protocol (MCP) servers plus other natural language AI interfaces that integrate with select network management and monitoring systems, I have gotten pretty familiar with what LLMs & GenAI can and can't do for network troubleshooting. The verdict? Our jobs are

Applied AI for Networking

Applied AI for Networking

Mike Trappe and I had a great conversation on the Network Buzz, a Laketec Podcast. We took a fast, plain-English tour of AI for networking. I traced my path from dial-up support to CTO at Laketec, then dove into how gen-AI and LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama/GPT-OSS) can practically