AIOps Fatigue Is Real, And It’s Your Vendor’s Fault, Not Yours Mike Hoffman has been doing this longer than most of us. His first network troubleshooting tool was an oscilloscope on thick coax, shooting down the cable and picking up a 50 ohm resistor looking for the little bleeps from vampire taps. His next tool was the first-generation Network General LAN Doctor. A briefcase with an RS-232 cable where he read binary blink patterns to figure out what was going on.

New post up on Pack IT Forwarding about why AIOps fatigue is real, what "deterministic root cause" actually means in plain English, and the questions you should be asking before you buy the next shiny thing.

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Try Before You Buy: Nokia Is Taking Validated Designs Seriously (And That’s Rarer Than You Think) Vendors publish "validated designs" and let them rot. Nokia is doing something different — and the four-year support commitment is the part worth paying attention to.

Vendors publish "validated designs" and let them collect digital dust. Nokia's NVD program has a 4-year support lifecycle, yearly updates, and a public GitHub repo with testable simulations. It raises the bar on what "validated" should actually mean. #nfd40

NetAI Presents at Networking Field Day 40 | Tech Field Day Day Three of Networking Field Day #NFD40 continues with a great presentation lined up from NetAI Inc.! Tune in to learn more and leave your thoughts in the comments. Presenters: Deepak Kakadia, Ir...

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Selector AI Presents at Networking Field Day 40 | Tech Field Day Day Three of Networking Field Day #NFD40 is underway! Kicking things off this morning are our friends from Selector! Tune in to the presentations to learn more and leave your thoughts in the comment...

Up next is Net AI at Network Field Day. #nfd40

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Getting ready to hear from @netris-io.bsky.social at Network Field Day. #nfd40

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Upscale AI Presents at Networking Field Day 40 | Tech Field Day Upscale AI Presents at Networking Field Day 40

Come watch Network Field Day as Upscale AI presents. #nfd40

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Good morning! Come join us at Network Field Day for @aristanetworks.bsky.social #nfd40

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It's interesting how @nokia.bsky.social is positioning their validated design guides as a product that gets a support life and that gets yearly updates. That's a far cry from many vendors that create a validated design and then ignore it for a decade. #nfd40

Ethernet, as a protocol, has been around for decades, yet we keep embracing and extending it for use cases that its developers would never have fathomed. When will it make sense to start with a clean slate? #nfd40

Nokia Presents at Networking Field Day 40 | Tech Field Day Networking Field Day #NFD40 is underway and we have a lot of great presentations lined up for you this week! Kicking things off are our friends from Nokia! Tune in now to learn more. Presenters: A...

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Time to talk with Nokia about their offerings in networking for AI. #nfd40

But It Works in the Lab! Software developers and security engineers are often at odds. This needs to stop and I have some suggestions.

But It Works in the Lab!

Software developers and security engineers are often at odds. This needs to stop and I have some suggestions.

AI Is Going to Kill Jobs! AI is changing the world. Things will change, career paths will disappear, but all will be well.

AI Is Going to Kill Jobs!

AI is changing the world. Things will change, career paths will disappear, but all will be well.

Ok I know I have some smart people out here and even some electricians. I have a TP-Link Kasa HS-220 dimmable smart switch. I just put in a new ceiling fan (separate switch for fan and light kit). How do I figure out that a bulb is TRIAC dimmable?

Trying to setup a new phone account has turned into an all afternoon process because I dared put a fraud alert on my credit report thanks to the lovely hackers that have gotten my information multiple times from multiple companies in the last 5 years. Somehow there has to be a better way to be safe.

Does Outlook New suck for everyone or just me? Getting frustrated because classic seems to be getting buggy and slow but new is worse.

Southwest Airlines Customer of Size Policy This won't be my usual blog post about something in IT. Instead, I want to bring attention to a change that has been announced at Southwest Airlines. Starting on January 27th, 2026, Southwest is changing to assigned seating. With this change, they are changing what had been the best policy for customers of size in the industry. Currently, the policy…

The latest change from @SouthwestAir and Elliot Capital is that they will be changing the Customer of Size policy that has led the industry since @ThatKevinSmith shamed them on Twitter in 2010. #noluv #sizefreedom

Leaving the CAE at 9am last night for sleep paid off. Passed SVPN this morning which if I do my math right means I'll be CCNP Security as soon as the computers validate everything. #ciscolive #ciscochampions

Sometimes studying with ChatGPT just makes me chuckle. "Only miss was on Q4, which is easy to do since GETVPN errors are cryptic as hell unless you memorize what happens during key registration vs rekey." #ciscolive #svpn

In case you were wondering, even the brand new C9350 will support 10Mbps Half Duplex. Legacy forever. #tfdx #CiscoLive

Thanks to @warcop.com wanting horizontal switch stacks, @michyfishmurphy.bsky.social has created the new concept of switch smearing. #tfdx #ciscolive

New Cisco Catalyst 9350 switches have 3 power supplies and 3 fans, N+1 on a stackable switch. #tfdx #ciscolive

An interesting thought as OpenGear mentions the possibility of training an LLM to be a CCIE resource but that they would need more context. This reminds me of the original NetMRI that was acquired by Infoblox. Where could the same concept go today with AI? #tfdx #CiscoLive

It's no longer the 10x engineer; OpenGear mentions that AI can make senior engineers 10x more efficient. #tfdx

Opengear Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2025 | Tech Field Day Tech Field Day is live from Cisco Live 2025! 🌐 🛜 Our presentations begin with our friends from Opengear! See the latest on what they're doing in the space, presented by CTO Douglas Wadkins. Mod...

Time to hear from OpenGear at @techfieldday.com #tfdx at @ciscolive.bsky.social #ciscolive

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I'm on the summer camp for geeks plane from BNA. #CiscoLive #CiscoChampion

FortiMarketing might need to rethink how their subjects may get truncated. :) @amyengineer.bsky.social