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  • TCG075: Say the Thing: How the Network Automation Conference Circuit Shaped One SP Operator’s Voice
    May 6 2026
    Eyvonne and William sit down with Joseph Nicholson, a Network Operations Engineer with NTT DATA, to share how public speaking transformed his career and technical experience. Joseph went from a terrifying ten minute lightning talk at AutoCon 2 to presenting 45-minute sessions at conferences like NANOG. Together they discuss how conversations in conference halls influenced... Read more »
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    49 Min.
  • TCG074: From SOAR to Agents: Why Practical Automation Has to Survive Contact with Real Infrastructure
    Apr 22 2026
    Eyvonne Sharp and William Collins speak with Sif Baksh, Principal Solutions Architect at Tines, to discuss the power of automation. Sif shares some personal stories of how he has been able to use automation to innovate and modernize networking operations. They also discuss the importance of learning AI and using it as a tool, how... Read more »
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    45 Min.
  • TCG073: From Vibes to Governed: What Building a Real Network Agent Reveals About Spec-Driven Development
    Apr 8 2026
    Vibe coding: give AI a description of what you want, the model writes the code, you ship it, and then you hope for the best. It works great for side projects, but it can fall apart the moment you point an AI agent at production infrastructure. Today, William and Eyvonne sit down with John Capobianco,... Read more »
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    58 Min.
  • TCG072: AI and the Automation Engineer – When Your Scripts Start Writing Themselves
    Mar 25 2026
    William Collins and Eyvonne Sharp invite Skylar Sands, Senior Automation Engineer at World Wide Technology, to discuss what it means to integrate AI into the daily workflow in a meaningful way. Together they break down the shift in the automation engineer’s role now that AI can instantly generate the “toolkit” of Python, Ansible, and Bash,... Read more »
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    50 Min.
  • TCG071: Cloud Cloning and Portability – Why Multi-Cloud Freedom Still Requires Translation (Sponsored)
    Mar 18 2026
    In this sponsored episode, FluidCloud co-founders Sharad Kumar and Harshit Omar sit down with William and Eyvonne to discuss how FluidCloud tackles multi-cloud portability. They detail how FluidCloud acts as a cloning platform that scans an existing cloud or VMware environment, extracts complex infrastructure configurations (including compute and storage, as well as firewall rules and... Read more »
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    35 Min.
  • TCG070: The Effort Illusion: Why AI Tools Reward Expertise, Not Shortcuts
    Mar 11 2026
    The tech industry is split between two fantasies – that AI writes production software while you get coffee, and that everything AI touches is slop. The reality is messier and more interesting: AI tools are force multipliers for people who already know what good looks like, and an expertise amplifier disguised as an easy button. ... Read more »
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    48 Min.
  • TCG069: Viral Predictions, Waterfall’s Comeback, and the SaaSpocalypse
    Feb 25 2026
    William and Eyvonne tackle the biggest AI stories of early 2026. They dissect Matt Schumer’s viral “Something Big is Happening” essay – agreeing professionals need to skill up now while pushing back on the doomsday framing with real-world examples from engineering disciplines. The conversation takes a fascinating turn as Eyvonne draws a parallel between AI-assisted... Read more »
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    55 Min.
  • TCG068: Agents and Identity – Navigating What We Can’t Predict
    Feb 11 2026
    We’ve spent a decade figuring out how to (more or less) securely authenticate humans. Now AI agents are crashing the party, and identity just got a whole lot more complicated. Today we sit down with Dan Moore, Senior Director of CIAM Strategy and Identity Standards at FusionAuth, to explore the collision course between artificial intelligence... Read more »
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    57 Min.