Great blog post from John Capobianco about our Hello World for AI episode. Check it out!
70% of network engineers haven't crossed into automation yet. That's not a knock — it's the reality. And the old path (learn Python, learn APIs, debug your own code) kept the industry on the sidelines for a decade. That bar is gone. I just sat down with Andy Lapteff 🛠️💬 on The Art of Network Engineering and did a real, unedited Hello World for AI in networking. No pre-baked demos. Bad JSON. A botched venv. An agent that hallucinated a Python script instead of using the tool right in front of it. We left every wall in. That was the point. If you've been waiting for someone to show you the smallest possible step into AI — no Python prerequisite, costs nothing, takes about an hour — the new blog walks you through it: → Start with NetBox (free, public, read-only, can't break anything) → Connect the MCP server (3 tools, all read-only) → Ask questions in plain English → Open the payload. Verify. Trust, but verify. The skill that matters now isn't coding. It's judgment. Knowing what to ask. Knowing when an answer is wrong. Network engineers have been building those skills their whole careers — we just called them change discipline, validation, troubleshooting, root cause. Read the full post 👇 #NetworkAutomation #AI #MCP #NetworkEngineering