Nigel Hickey
You might have seen my post about this already. My AI knows what’s in my refrigerator, the pantry, and the freezer too. That’s not a joke and it’s not a smart fridge. It’s a Claude project I built out of pure annoyance, and six weeks later it’s still running my …
I caught myself doing it again a few weeks ago. New chat, blank window, and the first thing I typed was three paragraphs of background I had already written somewhere else. Who I am. What I am working on. What I had already decided. What I did not want to …
I have known Jonathan Goodman for more than twenty five years. He is not a casual contact or someone I met at a conference. My family calls him Uncle Jonathan. We have watched each other grow careers, change directions, and figure out hard things. So when I tell you he …
Cisco Live 2026, Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas · June 2026 I just got back from a week in Las Vegas. Cisco Live, …
ONUG AI Networking Summit, Frisco, Texas · May 2026 I gave a ten-minute talk at ONUG in Frisco last week on the …
I just got back from a week in Amsterdam. NetBrain was running the Zero Outage Lounge nearby, a dedicated space for focused …
I don’t usually write product release posts on this blog. But I’m making an exception for NetBrain 12.3 for a simple reason: …
I just wrapped up what was honestly the most concentrated stretch of conversations with network engineers I’ve had all year. NetBrain LIVE …
NetBrain LIVE 2025 brought together customers, partners, engineers, and practitioners in Boston for several days of discussion around the future of network …
Automation is no longer reserved for scripting experts. No-code network automation platforms are empowering every network engineer to design workflows visually, accelerating …