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Good Friends, Systems Thinking, and a Hello World for AI
Andy Lapteff and Ryan Booth talk AI, systems thinking, and the future of network engineering—and revisit my Hello World for AI session and our subnetting game.
Good news for Hermes users!
NetClaw 1.8.0 brings protected Hermes federation and Mobile Ask Border together, following the shared HUD work in 1.7.0. Five diagrams explain the design and its tested boundaries.
Life Before AI: The Merlin Years
86,688 lines of hand-written code, about 550 hours, and the Django detour that helped me build NetworkGPT in two weeks. What Merlin taught me—and permission to build differently now.
AI, Systems Thinking, and the Future of Network Engineers
The Art of Network Engineering · Mention · Andy Lapteff and guest Ryan Booth discuss AI and systems thinking. Andy recalls John Capobianco’s Hello World for AI session at 1:06:15 and their AutoCon subnetting game at 1:11:02.
AI, Systems Thinking, and the Future of Network Engineers — community mentions
Art of Network Engineering · Mention · Andy Lapteff and Ryan Booth revisit John’s Hello World for AI session and the AutoCon subnetting game. Verified YouTube references at 1:06:15 and 1:11:02.
Built to go beyond.
FLAGSHIP PROJECTMeet NetClaw.
An AI agent that claws through your network. Built in the open, one real experiment at a time.
THE COMMUNITYFind your frequency.
Welcome to VibeOps. A place for curious engineers to build, share, and figure out the agentic future together.
Pick a starting point.
Keep going.
Start with the foundations
Ansible, Python, structured data, and your first repeatable network workflow.
Start here →02 / EXPLORETest the network with pyATS
Learn, parse, compare, and prove that your network works the way you expect.
Start here →03 / EXPLOREBuild an agent with tools
Connect models to real capabilities with MCP and explore the code behind them.
Start here →04 / EXPLOREMake network data visible
Turn CLI output into documents, mind maps, and interactive 3D topologies.
Start here →Less theory. More doing.
Good Friends, Systems Thinking, and a Hello World for AI
Andy Lapteff and Ryan Booth talk AI, systems thinking, and the future of network engineering—and revisit my Hello World for AI session and our subnetting game.
Good news for Hermes users!
NetClaw 1.8.0 brings protected Hermes federation and Mobile Ask Border together, following the shared HUD work in 1.7.0. Five diagrams explain the design and its tested boundaries.
Life Before AI: The Merlin Years
86,688 lines of hand-written code, about 550 hours, and the Django detour that helped me build NetworkGPT in two weeks. What Merlin taught me—and permission to build differently now.
Your network.
Put to the test.
Cisco pyATS
Data-driven and reusable testing for modern networks. Get beyond one-off scripts and build a testing practice you can trust.
Agents that reason.
Infrastructure that acts.
At Itential, I’m exploring what happens when AI meets real infrastructure—and helping engineers make that leap.
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The agent is open source.
Explore NetClaw's tools, follow the federation work, or connect from your phone.
From curiosity
to community.
My Google Developer Expert work brings together Gemini, agents, and network engineering. Explore the Google Cloud Tech collaboration, open-source projects, and practical experiments.
See your network
in a new dimension.
From Mind nMap and business-ready documents to Blender, Unreal Engine, Three.js, and NetClaw. Explore the visualization work—and try a mind map and a 3D network yourself.
Find your next experiment.
mind nmap
An automated network Mind Map utility build from markmap.js.org
Open repository ↗PythonMCPyATS
VibeOps - Cisco pyATS MCP Plus Many Other MCPs
Open repository ↗PythonDocument Buddy
Chat with various documents - XLSX, DOCX, PPTX, CSV, PDF, TXT - using chatGPT 4 Turbo and Langchain
Open repository ↗Pythonnetbox react agent
An artificial intelligence NetBox ReAct Agent
Open repository ↗PythonGeminiCLI ComputerUse Extension
A Google Gemini-CLI extension than enables Gemini Computer Use from the CLI
Open repository ↗PythonReACT AI Agent for Cisco IOS XE
Playing with Agents
Open repository ↗
Knowledge belongs
to everyone.
The complete Automate Your Network book. All 212 pages, available here for free. Start your automation journey—or revisit the foundations.
NO SIGN-UP. NO PAYWALL. JUST LEARNING.Let’s meet beyond the screen.
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Years of practical automation, AI experiments, and field notes.
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