Agents that reason.
Infrastructure that acts.

Inside Lumen’s Innovation Summit: 40 Agents in 45 Minutes With Itential FlowAI

John’s field report from Lumen’s hands-on FlowAI workshops, including session outcomes, inherited workflow documentation, and human-approved agent coordination.

Jev Told My FlowAgents to Roll Back. I Kept That in the Demo.

A demonstration of decision gates, scoped tools, human approvals, and recovery: Claude coordinates, Jev evaluates evidence, and Gemma handles reporting.

Why Determinism Is the Key to Safely Running AI Agents in Network Operations

Why infrastructure operations need repeatable execution around probabilistic reasoning, and where governed workflows fit into agent-driven changes.

MCP Connects the Agent. What Governs the Change?

John’s Toronto reflections on tool access, identity, permissions, and the operational controls needed when MCP-connected agents can change infrastructure.

Vibe Coding Grows Up: Inside Spec-Driven Development for Network Engineers

Cisco Released Antares: Within Hours I Had 3 FlowAgents Running On It, Finding, Fixing, & Reporting Vulnerabilities

What Is Agentic NetOps? Gartner Just Named the Category – Here’s What It Actually Means

Empowered, Not Replaced: A Network Engineer’s First Steps into AI & MCP

My Cisco Live 2026: Live Builds, VibeOps Energy & the Agent Era

The Summer of Agents: Everything We’re Bringing to Cisco Live and AutoCon 5

From Operator to Agent Manager: What Network Engineers Become Next

Network Engineers: You’ve Been Doing Spec-Driven Development for Years, You Just Didn’t Know It

Why Agent Sprawl Is the Next Script Sprawl

From the CLI to Natural Language: A Network Engineer’s Case for VibeOps

Governed, Not Chaotic: Why Agentic Operations Needs Deterministic Rails

The Evolution From Network Engineer To AI Orchestrator