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Eric Chou discusses with Juulia Santala about her transition to AI research and the future of network engineering.

Eric Chou welcomes Juulia Santala, a Solutions Engineer at Cisco, to discuss her transition from traditional network programmability to cutting-edge AI research. They explore how she moved beyond simple RAG to make AI truly agentic, while solving some hallucination problems in production configurations. They also cover the number one skill network engineers need by 2027, ... Read more »

People in this episode

Host: Eric Chou

Guest: Juulia Santala

Topics covered

• network automation
• AI research
• network programmability
• agentic AI
• hallucination problems
• future skills for network engineers

Keywords

• network automation
• AI
• Cisco
• programmability
• hallucination
• network engineers
• agentic

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Organizations: Cisco

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