Network Engineers: This AI Trick Will Save You HOURS

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Can AI really help network engineers in 2025? Hank Preston joins David Bombal to reveal how modern AI tools like ChatGPT, Mistral, and LM Studio can transform your workflow. Watch live demos of AI breaking down network diagrams, generating RFPs, minimizing hallucinations, and even running large models locally on a laptop. If you're a network engineer wondering how to use AI practically and securely, this is your ultimate guide.

Tools Used: ChatGPT, Mistral, LM Studio

Topics: Prompt engineering, config generation, local LLMs

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0:00 - Coming Up
0:29 - Intro
01:27 - AI Demo 1 in Chat GPT
03:13 - AI Hallucinations
04:05 - AI Demo 2 Network Diagram
06:24 - Teach Yourself To Talk To The AI
09:25 - Concerns with AI Hallucinations
12:42 - Something To Pay Attention to with AI
16:12 - Demo 3 School Speech Generation
18:46 - The Hype Around AI
19:25 - How Empowering is AI ?
19:43 - Where To Go If New to AI
19:45 - Outro

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