Practical AI workflows for senior engineers who are tired of doing everything the hard way.
I'm Garrett Masters. 11 years in IT and networking. I help senior mid-market IT engineers use AI and automation to stop drowning in manual work, troubleshoot faster, document better, and operate at the level their title says they should.
Latest video
A Local AI Agent on a Real Router: The Three Guardrails That Held · read the write-up · more on the channel
What I cover
AI-Powered Workflows
Demo-driven screen shares using AI as a daily engineering tool: config generation, documentation, log analysis, and compliance checks. Honest about what works and where it falls short.
Prove It's Not the Network
Repeatable incident triage workflows: rule-in/rule-out, evidence capture, escalation templates, and post-incident summaries. AI-assisted where it actually helps.
Automation for Non-Developers
Practical automation with AI as your coding partner. Python, Ansible, and Nornir for engineers who think in CLI, not IDEs. AI writes the code. You validate and run it.
The Senior Engineer Operating System
Runbook libraries, documentation workflows, lab habits, and the shift from doing the work to building the system that does the work.
What you're signing up for
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- A usable artifact from every video
- Real workflows, shown as live demos
- Honesty about AI's limitations
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- Cert prep
- Beginner networking tutorials
- Vendor marketing
- AI hype without proof
The Network Engineer's AI Prompt Pack
15 tested prompts for config generation, troubleshooting, ACL audit, and documentation. Free. You'll also hear about it when new tools, videos, and posts ship. Prefer to skip the email? It lives in the NetOps Toolkit on GitHub too.
Blog
Write-ups of the workflows, scripts, and prompts built on the channel. Easier on the eyes than a GitHub README.
- How to Stop Your AI Agent From Making Changes You Don't Want
- A Local AI Agent on a Real Router: The Three Guardrails That Held
- Local AI For Network Engineers - Stop Redacting Configs for ChatGPT
Free Toolkit
Every script, runbook, and prompt pack from the channel, tested in the lab and free to take to work.
Browse the toolkit