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Local AI for network engineers: your configs never leave your desk.

This episode sets up Ollama properly on a MacBook, benchmarks 6 local models against real Cisco configs, generates handoff documentation from a full 14,000-token show run all capture, and finishes with a 9B model driving real network tools through LM Studio’s permission gate. Free, private, and measured on camera, including the parts where local AI needs a fix.

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Heads up on this one: it’s a screen-share build, so there is real terminal work you can’t see here. The reasoning and the findings all stand on their own in audio. If you want to replicate the lab, the video version is worth the watch.

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If you’re the senior engineer on a small team, you’re probably being told to put AI agents on your network while being the one who answers for the outage if it goes wrong.

In this episode I build a bounded AI agent with real network tools (FastMCP, Netmiko, Claude Code as the harness, NetBox as the source of truth) and turn it loose on three Cisco IOS XE devices in my CML home lab. It finds a real CVE by checking my running configs against Cisco’s live PSIRT openVuln API, writes the fix, and then my own server-side boundary blocks it from applying anything until I approve the change by name.

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Heads up on this one: it’s a screen-share build, so there is real terminal work you can’t see here. The reasoning, the findings, and the boundary argument all stand on their own in audio. If you want to replicate the lab, the video version is worth the watch.

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Every network engineer has asked an AI chatbot for help, then had to manually copy and paste show command output back and forth the whole time.

This episode walks through building a custom MCP server with FastMCP and Netmiko that gives Claude Desktop live, read-only access to real Cisco IOS lab devices, so you can ask questions in plain English and get answers pulled straight from your running network.

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Heads up on this one: it’s a screen-share build, so there is real terminal work you can’t see here. The reasoning and the findings all stand on their own in audio. If you want to replicate the lab, the video version is worth the watch.

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It’s 11 PM, your maintenance window is going sideways, and ChatGPT just spit out 10 config changes. Two of them will break your network, three are noise, and you don’t have time to figure out which is which.

This episode walks through the four-part prompt structure that fixes that, runs four prompts live against a real Cisco lab in Claude, and shows where AI still gets things wrong so you know when to override it.

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Heads up on this one: the four demos run live on screen, real prompts against a real Cisco lab. The rules and the reasoning all stand on their own in audio. If you want to see the prompts and the configs, the video version is worth the watch.

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Manually copy-pasting show command output into a browser chat works fine for a lab, but it falls apart the moment you need to run it against a whole site, on a schedule, or hand it off to a teammate.

This episode walks through a fully automated network documentation pipeline built on Python, Netmiko, and the Claude API. One YAML inventory, one command, and you get back a finished runbook plus an optional draw.io diagram in minutes.

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Heads up on this one: it’s a screen-share build, so there is real terminal work you can’t see here. The reasoning and the findings all stand on their own in audio. If you want to replicate the lab, the video version is worth the watch.

Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/gtalkstech

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Network documentation is always outdated. Configs change constantly, but the docs never keep up.

This episode walks through a complete AI-powered workflow that takes raw show command output from live Cisco devices and turns it into a finished operational runbook and network diagram in about 10 minutes.

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Heads up on this one: it’s a screen-share build, so there is real terminal work you can’t see here. The reasoning and the findings all stand on their own in audio. If you want to replicate the lab, the video version is worth the watch.

Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/gtalkstech

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Every network engineer knows the vague ticket: the app is slow, so it must be the network.

This episode walks through a practical framework to rule the network in or out fast, using evidence instead of guesswork, and finishes with a PowerShell script that runs the checks and produces paste-ready proof for your ticket response.

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Heads up on this one: the evidence script demo runs on screen, so you can’t see its output here. The framework stands on its own in audio. If you want to watch the checks run, the video version is worth the watch.

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