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The episode discusses the impact of AI on network engineering and the importance of automation.

“AI Won’t Replace You, But Someone Using AI Might” AI is everywhere; stickers, marketing, hype. Network engineers are understandably skeptical. In this episode, Andy Lapteff is joined by longtime friend of the show John Capobianco (now Head of AI & DevRel at Itencho) and Mike Bushong for a practical, optimistic “ABCs of AI” discussion designed for working network engineers. We start with a blunt reality: automation adoption is still low, and the old “automate or die” narrative hasn’t help...

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