r/pcmasterrace • u/Away-Huckleberry9967 • 1d ago

Meme/Macro Let's check it out on Github

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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 23h ago

I am also a Network Admin, but luckily in my org we use it for helpful assistance (as an example - what is the equivalent of 'show mac-address table' on a Cisco switch, but on a Ciena, Calix, Juniper) but outside of that we do not use and will NOT be using AI on the network. That would be bad bad bad. I only hope for everybody else out there that the org isn't pushing them to do dumb stuff like that... Maybe something like ISE? Sure that would make a lot of sense in a lot of ways, but not core for sure..

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u/RUPlayersSuck R9 7900X | RTX 5060 TI | 32GB DDR5 17h ago

Exactly.

People should be viewing AI as a useful tool that can provide assistance and maybe save a bit of time.

I think its still way too early to be completely reliant on it and using it to replace people...especially engineers and coders with years of training & experience.

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u/smellyhippy420 13h ago

So you're using it for things you could just find pretty easily on a traditional old search engine?

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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 13h ago

Yeah but without the need to sift through pages of pdf files or learning forums/threads/etc.. I have a higher paced job so it helps a bit to save time.

And even then that is a niche use case for me. I basically never use AI at work.

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u/AGsec 12h ago

But quicker and more interactive. I'd rather work with gen AI chat bot to troubleshoot something instead of being talked down to by some nerd on a message board who closes my thread because I didn't include a sacrifice of my first born.

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u/nghigaxx 12h ago

Atm for me its a glorified search engine and auto complete. All AI do is making you read more at work, which kinda sucks

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u/Wonderful-Crazy1910 22h ago

Oh totally, like I said its a great tool, the problem again is implementation from the fucking C-suite who dont know anything about their own companies IT infrastructure.

For example, my company, which is a major player longstanding fortune 500 member has started using claude to create KBs for new clients for our NOC/MSP services. And people are not reviewing the data PRIOR to deployment, theyre updating records/processes as needed.

Some clients we've fully onboarded, only to realize the spreadsheet we imported all circuit info, site contact info, hell even location info was from 2018.... we had over 50 locations that were either missing entirely, or permanently closed.

Like I said, AI could be super useful to pull info from a spreadsheet and create profiles, but a human being wouldve noted the giant fucking 2018 in the title of the document and raised a red flag lmfao

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u/PoeticHistory 20h ago

Isnt this valid for frontier models only? What speaks against locally hosted AI? Theres high demand in critical infrastructure for that as frontier AI can not suffice in terms of security.

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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 14h ago

Neither AI is a good idea of letting loose on a network. Even a very carefully tight nit AI can make mistakes that can be disastrous for a network. One wrong command and it can black hole some serious traffic. What you would have to do to even think about that being a good idea is have a very specific and small trained ai running with many many guard rails, checks, balances, and even then it could pose a huge issue, and by then, good ole' regular programming would be much better (and cheaper) than using AI.