Leadership wants all departments implementing "Agentic AI", even my Infrastructure team.

Posted by buddylee007@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 452 comments

Our CEO has told all department heads that she wants to see 10 agentic AI deployments every month across the company, so each department needs to be working on something to show growth for the overall department. My team will use different AI tools to generate powershell, presentations, or code at times, but we're not really sure where to start on agent building when it comes to server/network management. Anyone else dealing with this type of push-down request and has anyone found decent agents worth doing? Or are we about to put on another show to check the boxes.

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MegaByte59@reddit

Interesting so they are presenting you with a solution and they want you to find a problem to fix with AI? lol

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sysdmn@reddit

From their perspective, the problem is that they have to pay people, and sometimes those people complain, and ask for more money, and don't blindly do what they ask, and need to sleep. They see all of these things are problems that they want to fix. They want to get rid of humans.

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RabidBlackSquirrel@reddit

This has been the approach for at least the last three years - ever since the normies got their hands on chatbots it's been a race to find a problem for this solution to solve so execs can feel a sense of accomplishment. The entire thing is stupid, and has been stupid. I got ridiculed for calling it out back then, like hey a neat tool for the toolbox when we work through problems but not something that MUST be deployed for no reason of than to say we're doing it. Execs didn't like that, apparently I'm a luddite and not innovative enough. But here we are, and the amount of money and time we've spent trying to find places to put AI bullshit in just so execs can get their rocks off will likely not be eclipsed by any form of cost savings. I'm glad to see the winds shifting lately though, three years ago people didn't really dare speak out against the hype machine that had execs feeling that FOMO.

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Darkace911@reddit

This is the same energy as move to the cloud. It's fun and games till you show them how much salesforce is going to charge them so an AI can have a useless conversation with potential customer who will get turned off by it. I'm waiting for the first AI virus to happen were someone takes a low budget AI and uses it to waste processing time on really expensive AI bots like Salesforce Agents. 10 cents a question can get really expensive if someone programs an cluster of agents to ask questions all day long.

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Dje4321@reddit

Tons of companies have already been burned HARD by AI. There was an airplane company that recently had to pay out a huge settlement after their AI agent made an offer that didnt exist. They want their cake and eat it too. They want to fire their entire workforce just so they can use AI, without being held accountable for the actions that the AI takes on their behalf.

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agent-squirrel@reddit

They also plug AI in without understanding or taking precautions. They just want the next big thing. It's The Cloud all over again.

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quentech@reddit

> There was an airplane company that recently had to pay out a huge settlement after their AI agent made an offer that didnt exist. The "huge settlement" was $812. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatbot-misinformation-what-travellers-should-know

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Cynyr@reddit

"AI" isn't intelligent enough to obey company policy out of a fear of losing its job. Isn't really intelligent enough to know what company policy is either I guess.

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NteworkAdnim@reddit

I keep saying that AI is like a stupid intern that you have to keep tabs on because they're gonna fuck things up.

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agent-squirrel@reddit

Yes I've been saying this for a while. "EVERYTHING IS CLOUD". Now "EVERYTHING IS AI". Hopefully it will burn out and become a background tool instead of this glorified chatbot system that Martha in HR thinks is "Super kewl I can make cat pics with this".

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1a2b3c4d_1a2b3c4d@reddit

> I'm waiting for the first AI virus to happen were someone takes a low budget AI and uses it to waste processing time on really expensive AI bots like Salesforce Agents. Maybe thats how it will start, all harmless and all, just like how viruses 1.0 started. But eventually someone with an edge will program the virus AI 2.0 to do serious damage, like the virueses that used to wipe your systems... Only then will the real AI Viruses 3.0 come out that will figure out how to extort or steal money from the other companies, and then it will all come back around to where we are today, only instead of dealing with hackers, we will be dealing with AIs...

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FlibblesHexEyes@reddit

“Your AI is stoned!” messages appearing on all the chat bots.

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zeptillian@reddit

The cloud still uses proven and reliable technology. It's actually better than being on prem as you can get much better uptime guarantees and geographic distribution. Shoehorning AI into everything will just make it worse.

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Unexpected_Cranberry@reddit

I'd say that's not necessarily true. Just like AI, it depends. Geographic distribution is only a plus if you need it. The uptime sounds great, until you realize that when you were on prem, while you may have had fewer nines in your uptime, the downtime was usually scheduled according to your business requirements. Cloud has less downtime, but that's a small comfort when that downtime hits during critical business hours. Then there's the increased cost, reduced performance, lost flexibility and agility, and suddenly you realize it's not all upsides. There's a reason the majority of large companies over spoken to lately have shifted from cloud first to cloud where it makes sense. We're in a situation now where we moved services to cloud. And we're talking native cloud services, not running VMs in Azure. First year was riddled with downtime that impacted our business. It has had a negative impact on user satisfaction compared to when we were on prem and we had more hours of production lost over the year. But it was still within their promised uptime, which on paper was higher than we achieved on prem. And now they're looking to jack up the price. So we're getting ready to start planning a move back on prem. We'd rather not, as it has reduced the amount of time we spend on updates and maintenance. But it's already a significant price hike compared to on prem, and if they jack that up even more we cannot justify the cost. It would be cheaper to just hire another person and task them with maintaining the additional on prem infra. And they'd still have time left over to help with other things.

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zeptillian@reddit

Shitty software is not improved by running it on other people's hardware and yeah, you will have to pay additional to have someone run the servers for you so it will always cost more. Running your applications on Amazon's servers will be be much more reliable than running them on your own hardware for the vast majority of businesses. Comparing self hosted applications with SaaS is comparing apples to oranges.

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WhiskeyBeforeSunset@reddit

Right... Is your on prem worse than 3 9's? Mine sure isn't. That's the azure SLA. 99.9% uptime. Thats also why I call it Microsoft 364.

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quentech@reddit

> Is your on prem worse than 3 9's? Mine sure isn't. That's the azure SLA. 99.9% uptime. AWS/Azure/etc. SLA's work just like pretty much everyone else's - it's 100% until it's not, and then it just does not matter what the SLA is they'll blow right through it before it's fixed.

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Unexpected_Cranberry@reddit

In this case you can choose, buy it as SaaS or run it yourself. Currently we're doing the SaaS thing. Before that we were running it ourselves. If it was as easy as snapping your fingers we would move it back. The reason being, as I said, while we probably had lower uptime measured in hours over a year, the downtime we've seen from the SaaS has had a larger impact as the timing of it was out of our hands. But the SaaS is not bad enough or expensive enough to motivate a project. Yet. And now that I think about it, all our applications that have the highest requirements around availability or performance are all on prem. Cloud is not performant or reliable enough. You might be able to solve the reliability through a multi cloud strategy, but the cost would be astronomical and the performance would be worse. And it's not that we haven't tested running it in the cloud. We've set up several POCs with the help of external consultants recommended by the vendor and Microsoft. We still ended up on prem for everything except this. And that was mostly motivated by them giving us a great deal on licensing in order to get a large customer in their cloud, plus them locking some features to their SaaS offering. But, these are things that need to be running 24/7/360 for a couple of hundred people in one physical location. And unexpected downtime of more than two hours will cost enormous amounts of money and risk of injury or death. Somehow it hasn't happened yet in the 30 to 70 years these sites have been operating without cloud. Now, if your company is in the business of providing websites or servers to consumers, and you have high variability in the load I can see cloud making sense. Or SaaS delivering non - critical services to office workers where worst case you lose some working hours if its down, which they can either fill with other tasks or catch up on later. But if you're providing control services for manufacturing, logistics or something where the stakes are higher and being able to plan down time around business requirements and not the other way around is critical, on prem is the way to go. Not to mention being able to test updates before they're rolled out.

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VexingRaven@reddit

> The uptime sounds great, until you realize that when you were on prem, **while you may have had fewer nines in your uptime**, the downtime was usually scheduled according to your business requirements. I'm not even convinced this is true in most cases tbh. At least, I can think of plenty of cases where cloud has had far worse uptime than our on-prem infrastructure. Our on-prem VMWare infrastructure has not, to the best of my recollection, had any unscheduled downtime in the decade I've worked here. Most updates can be done without actually taking down any VMs, it's rather rare we actually have any downtime at all from a VMware update. Our on-prem accounting tool has basically 100% uptime except a few minutes a month for OS updates. The cloud replacement has monthly or even weekly maintenance lasting all night long, not including any unscheduled outages that may happen (though those have been thankfully rare in recent years). To make matters worse, updating the client for this app is so awful that the client update *alone* ends up creating more downtime than anything we ever had from the old software.

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quentech@reddit

> I'm not even convinced this is true in most cases tbh. At least, I can think of plenty of cases where cloud has had far worse uptime than our on-prem infrastructure. Agreed. And half the time we can't do a damn thing about it because the cloud provider's shit is what's broke. With on prem, we'd just dig in and fix it. With cloud, we first have to convince lower level support it's their problem in the first place. That can take literally *days*.

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Unexpected_Cranberry@reddit

This is my experience as well. But I don't have hard numbers to back it up, so I didn't push it. My experience is that the only people who praise cloud and SaaS are developers who can't manage their own laptop, never mind a server infrastructure and executives who attended a conference of some sort. Everyone else, including competent people who make their living administering cloud services (our team managing Azure is twice the size compared to the team managing our VMware environment. Which has a couple of hundred clusters littered all over the world.) all agree that Cloud is a tool that makes sense for some workloads, but it's not a replacement for on prem that makes sense for everything. We had a full cloud push back in the day. Engineers protested, management insisted. Then management got the first batch of bills, complaints around performance and uptime from the business. Now it's on prem preferred, cloud where it makes sense.

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dasunt@reddit

I would say that the cloud depends on your use case. Tiny company or fast growing company? Sure, I could see the cloud being a good solution. Large company that already has multiple DCs? I'd look at the numbers carefully. YMMV.

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zeptillian@reddit

Whether it makes financial sense has nothing to do with the point I was making. Moving from on prem to clouded hosted is still using the same software and the same or perhaps better hardware. It's not throwing out a perfectly usable working solution to use something much more unreliable. It may not make sense for everyone because of the reasons you mentioned, but it's not a stupid idea like having a machine that lies handle your customer service.

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RabidBlackSquirrel@reddit

> The cloud still uses proven and reliable technology. It's actually better than being on prem as you can get much better uptime guarantees and geographic distribution. A statement that broad is just as meaningless and low effort conjecture as all the AI nonsense. "Cloud" is just buzzword for outsourced software - of the millions upon millions of outsourced SaaS options from providers for all aspects of running a business for for literally everything niche that exists, we can't say that "cloud is proven and reliable and better." Sometimes it is. Sometimes it isn't. The responsible approach is to analyze your individual use cases, for your specific company and its workflows and existing infrastructure, software, budget, and available options/alternatives weighed against your company's goals. But that doesn't make for lofty, broad statements to generate hype on LinkedIn.

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zeptillian@reddit

A real datacenter is better than whatever most businesses have for their server rooms. Cloud just means the computers are remote. Switching from hosted applications to SaaS is something entirely different.

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SemiAutoAvocado@reddit

> This is the same energy as move to the cloud This is an alarmingly stupid comment.

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agent-squirrel@reddit

We had an all division meeting about 3 years ago to talk about AI and the direction the uni should take. Everyone was sucking of OpenAI like it was their last meal until I spoke up. I said in as many words "This isn't the second coming of Jesus and using such excessive amounts power to write your emails is beyond stupid". *crickets* The sustainability director didn't say a word even though when I brought up a 3 2 1 backup strategy the week before, he suggested we should be mindful of the power requirements and emissions from storing data in multiple clouds. But of course, AI is MAGIC and SPECIAL and worth it.

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many_dongs@reddit

Who could have thought that boomer execs being bad at their job and going senile would ever impact their companies

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Darth_Malgus_1701@reddit

Replace execs with AI. Problem solved.

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PsyOmega@reddit

That is a bit luddite though. Once we have reasoning AI running as agents, the sky is the limit. I've seen o3 demo's and the thing is *almost* AGI level.

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eater-of-a-million@reddit

There is no such thing as reasoning ai.

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PsyOmega@reddit

OpenAI's o3 model.

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Doonesman@reddit

I tore a strip off my tech director about this today, so you get the Luddites Speech too. The Luddites were some of the most highly-trained technical workers of their day, using the most advanced technology going. They weren't ignorant barbarians afraid of change - they were skilled craftsmen who saw they were going to be replaced by children kidnapped from Napoleonic War orphanages who would be forced to produce poor-quality goods in dangerous conditions, and they weren't prepared to stand for it. It's never about what technology does. It's about who it does it to and who it does it for.

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Eisenstein@reddit

Where did you learn that?

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SolidKnight@reddit

Amusing how much pushback you get for getting new tools that are much cheaper, leveraging features of tools you already own, or just providing training materials to people but then an expensive new tool comes out and suddenly you're getting blank checks to incorporate it. We found the $1000 solution to the $1 problem.

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5panks@reddit

I just did a 30 minute sales pitch yesterday on an AI product and the end pitch was "When you start using it you find things to do with it." lol

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Icy_Party954@reddit

Where are you seeing this changing? I want to believe but thats not my impression, I hope im wrong.

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MegaByte59@reddit

haha a luddite. funny.

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Mindless_Consumer@reddit

I've heard this a lot, actually. I suspect major shareholders also hold a lot of stock in AI companies (that aren't doing super well), and this is a way to increase that stock price.

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MegaByte59@reddit

That makes sense actually. Didn't we do something similar during the dot com bubble?

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1a2b3c4d_1a2b3c4d@reddit

Yes, but this AI Bubble has a long way to go before it gets close to bursting. But it will burst. All bubbles do. Once the CEOs realize that there is minimal or no ROI for the money they need to spend on AI. Once millions\billions\trillions of dollars get lost, and lives get lost, only then will it all come crashign down into something we can actually use. I can envision the future sales of all the bankrupt AI companies' intellectual property (IP) being similar to the IP fire sales of all the dot-coms in the early 2000s.

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ErikTheEngineer@reddit

I was a broke recent grad back then, but if I had money in 2000 you'd better believe I'd be snapping up Aeron chairs and Sun E10000 megaracks. Nothing like that is going to come of an AI bubble pop...all the cloud bills are on the founder's VC Amex black card and the bank will repossess the AI bro Lamborghinis.

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michaelhbt@reddit

Im old enough just to remeber the dotcom bubble bursting, speaking with a couple of more seniors recently and this all sounds very very familiar.

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MegaByte59@reddit

I would counter this with if they can improve AI enough that we could have agentic sysadmins & network engineers performing IT tasks reliably without error that it would be a massive edge. And maybe then it would not be a bubble. We’ll see if they can pull it off.

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1a2b3c4d_1a2b3c4d@reddit

The fact that all AIs currently hallucinate and make up answers makes the ability to trust an AI pretty low. Until that changes, I don't see successful widescale usage. Some will try to use the tech anyway, but they will fail hard when they loose enough money or enough people die.

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dasunt@reddit

I could see a decent ROI on AI use in the long term, tbh. It's good for some things. The problem is that it's like replacing hammers with nail guns - it'll make carpenters more efficient, but it doesn't make the average person a carpenter.

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1a2b3c4d_1a2b3c4d@reddit

> it'll make carpenters more efficient, but it doesn't make the average person a carpenter. Yes, this 1000%. Just like how Personal Computers (after getting rebranded from the name Micro Computers) made workers more efficient in the 1980s. Then, Networking and the Internet increased worker efficiency in the 90s. Then, Email and Search in the 2000s. Mobile in the 2010s. The progression of Computer Use made workers and people more efficient, and in that, yes, some people lost their jobs. Email almost single handedly eliminated or decimated mail rooms in all companies. If you work in a call center and read a script, yes, 100% your job can be outsourced to an AI backed ChatBot. But for most jobs, AI will only help them, not replace them.

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MegaByte59@reddit

I would counter this with if they can improve AI enough that we could have agentic sysadmins & network engineers performing IT tasks reliably without error that it would be a massive edge. And maybe then it would not be a bubble. We’ll see if they can pull it off.

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FalloutRip@reddit

This was my first intuition as well. Exec took a large personal investment into the company making the tool, wants data points they can use to promote it and bump the price up before acquisition/ IPO. Of course, there's zero way to prove that outside of discovery in a court, but I've seen the pattern enough times.

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nico282@reddit

That's the main and only selling strategy for Copilot from Microsoft. First buy the licenses, then pay consultants that will find some ways to use it.

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Coffee_Ops@reddit

Can always ask the AI what problem you should ask it to solve.

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TotallyNotIT@reddit

I'm dealing with this now. Being told we have to use Copilot because AI. I'm struggling to find things that it can actually help me with. I do have Copilot Studio though so I'm trying to come up with a specific bot that will be useful in some way.

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trobsmonkey@reddit

That's AI. like the entire fucking selling point is "WE CAN FIX PROBLEMS YOU DON"T KNOW YOU HAVE" then execs tell us, go find the problems.

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kerosene31@reddit

This is why the C-Suite types make so much more money than us. :)

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sybrwookie@reddit

Welcome to AI. It's the new NFT.

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Mike312@reddit

Welcome to working directly with the C-suite.

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ElizabethMillertk23q@reddit

: My goal is to use tech more intentionally, but repetitive tasks force me to opencountless tabs and apps. It's the opposite of minimalism. Has anyone used automation tosignificantly reduce the number of digital interactions needed daily?

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oceanegoodyearrxb0a@reddit

yeah tbh this push was confusing for us too. we started mixing naviro with some custom scripts to see where agentic ai could actually move the needle in our infra. it helps filter out noise and points us to real growth spots alongside our usual tools. feels less like guesswork now.

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oceanegoodyearrxb0a@reddit

yeah tbh this used to kill me too. what helped was using [naviro.ai](http://naviro.ai) to get a clear view on what AI efforts actually move the needle. paired it with powershell scripting and some simple monitoring tools, and it made the process a lot less confusing. feels good not just spinning wheels to check boxes

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officialnaviro@reddit

[Naviro.ai](http://Naviro.ai) could be a great fit for your team to streamline and track AI deployments across departments. It offers intelligent audits, data-backed content strategies, and real-time optimization to ensure meaningful growth instead of just checkbox exercises. Worth checking out!

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xcalvirw@reddit

You must ask the CEO about what exact duties she wants the AI agent to handle. After getting the goals, you can start looking for teh best AI tool available for the tasks.

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Sunitha-GS@reddit

I do not understand why the top level management is obsessed with AI Agents this much. General public still does not trust AI answers and solution. Ref: [https://www.systosys.com/viewtopic.php?t=227](https://www.systosys.com/viewtopic.php?t=227)

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Prior_Club6335@reddit

👋 Hello u/buddylee007! Check out our AI agent marketplace: https://example.com?utm=reddit_post

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ExcitingTabletop@reddit

Show to check the boxes. Add blinky lights for bonus points. Your CEO doesn't know what AI is, let alone agentic AI. But she needs talking points hopefully for owner or board, worse case so she can make LinkedIn posts or brag at events. Note she didn't specify that the AI had to be useful. Just that you did it.

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Sat0shi619@reddit

Haha, read this also- https://medium.com/@aksh8t/why-72-of-startups-will-use-ai-agents-by-2025-and-how-to-start-now-c5e68223694e

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MandaloreZA@reddit

RGB strips on the server rack that change color based on the load got me an extra few k of budget.

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ExcitingTabletop@reddit

This right here is the kind of technical and strategic brilliance that OP needs to learn from. Slap on an "AI controller" on a RP4 and you're going places.

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Quietech@reddit

Algorithmic Intern. True AI costs a lot.

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Profvarg@reddit

Write AI on the case of the RP4 with a sharpie

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Randalldeflagg@reddit

A single black box, a red led, and a switch. Label it AI.

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Whyd0Iboth3r@reddit

And if they ask why there aren't any wires, you remind them that it is wireless, obviously.

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scubajay2001@reddit

Or Bluetooth, which makes everything better

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TedW@reddit

I started saying Bluetooth when I try anything hands-free. Kinda like saying Kobe before throwing a can in the general direction of a recycle bin.

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dorekk@reddit

lmao

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compmanio36@reddit

It's so light!

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flecom@reddit

better get it back to big ben!

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ZAFJB@reddit

Somehow this reminds me of a stunt we pulled at university, decades ago. Box on desk with button labelled 'Push button to stop lecture'. Eventually somebody's curiosity got the better of them. They pushed button. Lecture stopped. Why and how? Lecture hall was a large windowless affair. If lights were off it was totally dark. Button was wired in series with a resistor in a mains plug, between live and earth. When button was pushed it leaked about 30mA to ground, which was enough to trip the main residual current breaker. Everything off.

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Ron-Swanson-Mustache@reddit

But don't confuse it with the internet box.

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Sweevo1979@reddit

This brought a flashback... I once got asked to look at connecting a community centre to the Internet. Our service director baulked at the cost, then asked me if it'd be possible to get a proxy server which cached the internet so we didn't need to have a high speed connection. Once I'd stopped laughing at the email, I calmly composed an email pointing out that the required storage capacity would outstrip anything we could afford.

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Randalldeflagg@reddit

damn. you are right. can't mix those two up, add a second lable that says "Not The Internet"

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Jhamin1@reddit

Make sure you run it by the Elders of the Internet first.

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MathmoKiwi@reddit

> A single black box, a red led, and a switch. Label it AI. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg&ab\_channel=TheITCrowd](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg&ab_channel=TheITCrowd)

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uncobbed_corn@reddit

![gif](giphy|QPQ1fE2MkGG5PEMSwu|downsized) Press for AI

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FauxReal@reddit

That sounds dangerously similar to the box that houses the Internet. I hope no wacky mixups cause any issues.

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200kWJ@reddit

You could add some washers or miscellaneous nuts and bolts inside the box to give it some weight since the Internet doesn't weigh anything.

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Sk1rm1sh@reddit

Write "The internet" on the case and hand it to the CEO.

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scubajay2001@reddit

I'd call this the best "implementation of AI" to date lol

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fizzlefist@reddit

Put some painters tape on a rack and write a pet name on it with a sharpie. Make sure if anyone asks, it’s not used anywhere or documented, just a totally unofficial name for the AI friendo.

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sdeptnoob1@reddit

Just put an Alexa in the server room

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Deiskos@reddit

write A1

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Ron-Swanson-Mustache@reddit

Or talk about how weird it is. [Call it Wierd Al. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm8RG1leX8c)

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RyanLewis2010@reddit

Man now i can go for a steak sandwich and A1

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BloodFeastMan@reddit

A random pop up on her screen with the title "From AI" that tells her how pretty she is, she won't leave her office.

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MathmoKiwi@reddit

> Slap on an "AI controller" on a RP4 for the lights and you're going places. Mind, you don't need AI to control the lights. But if it has AI whatever installs, and the light controllers installed, it's an AI controller. For double triple bonus points use a Nvidia Jetson instead of Raspberry Pi because "***it has AI***" built into it.

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ExcitingTabletop@reddit

This guy AI's

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MathmoKiwi@reddit

For quadruple bonus points I'll write the code for running on the Jetson in Mojo (which is basically Python, but ***for AI***) [https://www.modular.com/mojo](https://www.modular.com/mojo) There are unlimited opportunities here of where we can do basically the same thing but ***for AI***

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zyxwertdha@reddit

I'm reminded of a story a datacenter design consultant told me many years ago... He had been architecting major datacenter buildouts in Asia, and he wanted a way to make the lobbies nicer for when they were bringing executives in to see where they had spent all of that money. He got strings of christmas lights, wired them up to a breadboard, and a flasher controller. He put this contraption into a nice frame, covered it with plexiglass, and labelled it "Datacenter Internet". Apparently it was a huge hit with the execs, and they asked him to retrofit their other datacenters with his Internet visualization tool.

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ExcitingTabletop@reddit

Unironically I've built those. I recently made a google maps for the manufacturing facility. You could click on a machine and get the individual stats, or see red/green for all the machines at once. It is handy because you can see trends you can't see with individual work orders, parts or whatever.

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kagato87@reddit

Eh. Let AI generate the script so the brassholes can see the tokens used. Then delete it because it's poorly structured and difficult to validate, and roll your own.

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hutacars@reddit

Run a few space heaters in the server room. Crank the AC to the max. When Finance brings up the massive power bill to the CEO and she identifies IT as the one who caused it, say it’s the load of running all the notoriously power hungry AI to power all these AI projects. Maybe then you’ll see a change of tune?

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Medium_Banana4074@reddit

Yes, like "the internet" in IT crowd. :)

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renaissancenow@reddit

Or maybe the flashing boxes that Richmond is responsible for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12LLJFSBnS4 Noel Fielding is my favourite character in the IT crowd.

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BlankBruno@reddit

Came here looking for this. This, Jen, is the internet!

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137dire@reddit

If you -do- have an AI controlling the lights, that counts as one of your metrics.

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ExcitingTabletop@reddit

That's a bad idea. Just install AI on the RP but don't let it control the lights. Still counts as a metric. "We installed Rasa on our light controller, ushering in a new generation of Smart Lighting Control" is a factually correct statement.

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Valdaraak@reddit

And that's not even a bad idea. My home computer is set up similar. RGB on my GPU changes based on temp. Motherboard RGB changes based on CPU temp. I kinda want my keyboard RGB to go flashing red if the temps get way too high, but I don't have the right keyboard for that.

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nme_@reddit

How is that “ai”? God, I can’t wait for this all to die down so we can on to “AI 2.0” /s

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blbd@reddit

1.0 was 80s AI hype This is 2.0 the bloated second system Hopefully 3.0 will be more sane and light less cash on fir

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dorekk@reddit

> Hopefully 3.0 will be more sane and light less cash on fire Will there even be a 3.0?

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pdp10@reddit

Mid 1980s was the most-recent [AI winter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter). The original AI hype was [*1950s*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter#Machine_translation_and_the_ALPAC_report_of_1966).

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fresh-dork@reddit

it's funny, because somewhere around 2.0, it gave us things like ANPR, and people just don't think of that as AI, when it totally is

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Valdaraak@reddit

It's not. But to a CEO it might be if you word it right.

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ciboires@reddit

No, no, no computer algorithms is 2015 tech, in 2025 it uses AI to monitor loads and temp where do I send my 5 millions invoice for AI consulting?

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iama_bad_person@reddit

You joke, but when we moved all but a couple test servers to the cloud shrinking our 5 full height server racks to needing less than half of a single one, one of the engineers bought some blank plates and added LED lights to the front so it looks like the racks are all still full. We did this because one of the C-suite big wigs looked at our server room mid lift (there is a floor to ceiling glass window that looks into the server room from the IT area) and mentioned that maybe the building could use it as a storage closet if we didn't need it anymore.

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zyeborm@reddit

Take a look at big Clive's "supercomputers" Heh I should make some rack mount ones.

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graywolfman@reddit

Omg. I feel this. No storage of cardboard, liquids, ceiling tiles, any of that should be done in the network closet. Cardboard breaks down and pulls humidity out of the air, liquids obviously spill, ceiling tiles break down and cause dust everywhere. I went to one of our branch offices and they literally had a case of monster laying on top of the Cisco ISR. I was livid.

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Superb_Raccoon@reddit

And silverfish eggs can hitchhike in. You want bugs in your code? C9ngrats!

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jonathon8903@reddit

Food and liquids are obvious ones. But I never considered cardboard. Thanks!

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Superb_Raccoon@reddit

Remember the old ibm commerical? Police milling about, mid level manger losing his shit over an empty datacenter floor... "Where did all the servers go?"

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tidderwork@reddit

> they aren't fucking taking our server room as well. OK, I kinda get it, but can I ask why? You said you have less than half a rack of actual equipment left in there. Why do you care if they do something else with the server room as long as your equipment is relocated appropriately?

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iama_bad_person@reddit

>as long as your equipment is relocated appropriately? This ain't happening. What they will do, as they have with some of our other locations, is tell us to give the Building Manager, Facilities, front desk and their cousins access to the server room and then they will start using it as a storage closet. I once went to one of our other large locations in a different city and they had started storing cartons of coffee *inside the server rack.* Plus, what the other guy said: if we need it later, we aren't getting it back. Facilities already took half our storage closet space "temporarily" 3 years ago, this will be the hill I die on.

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Frekavichk@reddit

Because when you need it later, you aren't getting it back. But also because fuck 'em.

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One_Power_123@reddit

My last job (an msp)... i literally filled a data center full of 4u rack mount cases with blinky lights. Management wanted to impress potential leads for new customers that we had capacity.

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simpleittools@reddit

okay. I love this. I might try to convince clients we need a budget for this.

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t4ckleb0x@reddit

*AI powered Visual Server diagnostic Agent

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Vektor0@reddit

Yeah, this is a great way to ask for a budget to implement a tool that you wanted anyway, and just call it "AI."

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pdp10@reddit

[AI bird feeder](https://www.reddit.com/r/birding/comments/1kgzvu0/the_ai_on_some_of_these_smart_feeders_is/)?

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ImCaffeinated_Chris@reddit

You laugh, but I did an AI project replicating an HVAC controller using LEDs to show heating and cooling. Showed my wife... "That's nice honey. You spent all that time to turn a light red or blue." But...but...AI! She wasn't impressed 🤣

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bubba198@reddit

And Alexa to control it - it's AI heck!

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Popular_Basil756@reddit

Them muthafuckas weren’t ready seeing the 4:3 server screen with RGB backlight sync of the company logo desktop background

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okcboomer87@reddit

This is great.

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Torwals@reddit

Best tip I have seen based on this point of view is to check if anyone of ones vendors or partners already have implemented AI in any system one is already using, and then just take what they are saying AI is helping with their product and say that you have now implemented that solution in your environment. Can probably copy paste a bunch of the jargon as well. For example AI in firewalls is quite common, or AI optimized anything, if one write ones scripts using co-pilot, etc... You vendor list is literarily your oyster at this point, because they also have to have AI in everything now a days.

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ExcitingTabletop@reddit

Except this can bite you if you actually need stuff that works. The number of products with useful AI is very limited. The number of products made worse by sucking resources from critical functionality and put towards marketing slop is a lot. If I sound a bit over the top, we do use AI. We use a lot of it. But we do so where it makes sense, and where it won't hurt the company or kill people. Eg, if we're attaching AI vision system to a robot arm, we want to make sure it's literally impossible for the arm to kill anyone. If we know AI isn't useful because consistency and efficiency is the priority, we intentionally avoid products that use or claim to use AI. For example, new big thing is AI and ERP's. Which goes together like kindergartens and napalm. That said, I've set it up for scanning invoices again using AI vision systems. Low level AP staff checks that the totals are right and fix the mistakes, managers approve or fix variances (typically related to shipping), and automated alerts to finance if things go really out of spec. Still tons more efficient than hand entry, but we go in knowing AI is going to make mistakes and incorporate that into the workflow at every level.

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MagicWishMonkey@reddit

What are you using for document processing? I don’t think ERPs are necessarily not inclined to play nice with AI, it’s just that they take such a massive amount of constant babysitting that deploying an AI in a haphazard way can easily negatively impact a bunch of downstream systems/processes. I’ve spent the last two years doing the trial by fire thing after being moved from software engineering/architecture to managing enterprise systems and it’s astonishing how poorly designed most of these systems are. I always heard horror stories about SAP but they are light years ahead of most of the big players in the enterprise space, there are so many garbage platforms out there that people pay millions of dollars for because it’s easier than switching to something that doesn’t suck. I spend a ton of time every week trying to hunt down issues that stem from one system having different opinions around what constitutes valid input than the other systems. Someone somewhere put a comma in a description field in our ERP and suddenly our payroll system is broken. It’s total insanity.

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ExcitingTabletop@reddit

Last company so I forget off the top of my head. It was for JDE. Currently using Infor. I used SAP at an aerospace manufacturer, it was very successful. The implementation stopped production for six months, which was a smashing success. Plenty of companies killed or nearly killed themselves by going with SAP. Target Canada is just the most famous example. ERP's are not inclined to play nice with AI. Your ERP needs to be your one source of truth. AI is guaranteed to systematically make mistakes. Yes, humans make mistakes, but AI makes mistakes at scale. So you need filters before any AI input hits your ERP to correct for those mistakes. Again, like with doc processing, it's completely worth it. And yes, what you described is normal for every ERP, big or small. They're all terrible in unique ways.

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MagicWishMonkey@reddit

Of course you don't want AI to go bananas in your ERP, but for constrained use cases it's pretty safe. For example, if you have a process for dealing with chargebacks, you could have an AI middleware review the fax (email pdf) from the bank, extract the credit card number, account number, dollar amount, etc. and feed that into the ERP where it would be reconciled. If the card number/account/dollar amount don't correspond to an existing charge in the system it gets flagged for human review, but otherwise it's safe to process.

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Beznia@reddit

3 months... Ahh that is what kills every implementation at my work. It always needs to be done "yesterday", so we start calling up vendors and get the sales guy in with a solutions engineer. Engineer chuckles at our timeline and the sales guy is always "we can do it!". It does not get done.

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rainer_d@reddit

I‘ve also heard this kind of stuff is what actually works with AI. Most of the rest is rather pipedreams.

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ExcitingTabletop@reddit

AI is VERY good at very narrow niches. Niches right next to each other may be worlds apart in terms of AI functionality.

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bfodder@reddit

> Except this can bite you if you actually need stuff that works. I mean, then you're fucked anyway.

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Leif_Henderson@reddit

> The number of products with useful AI is very limited. True, but the number of useful products that *claim* to have AI in there *somewhere* is actually a lot higher! Everyone is dealing with this C-suite circlejerk

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AlsoInteresting@reddit

"which go together as kindergarten and napalm" lol

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Seastep@reddit

This is it. Comply maliciously and build a GPT that talks like a Gen Z employee

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ExcitingTabletop@reddit

That's being a bit too vindictive and cruel.

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thearctican@reddit

How much cooler would it be for their career if OP actually learned how to develop and deploy agents instead of resisting a direct order?

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ExcitingTabletop@reddit

Because it's impossible to deploy 10 useful AI projects PER MONTH. So OP can either deploy broken AI slop every 3 days, adding tech debt, cost and maintenance overhead each time. Or do what the CEO wants, and just give her the metrics she wants.

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Easy-Window-7921@reddit

Interesting our boss also want this….

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ExcitingTabletop@reddit

Spend time on blinky lights or an awesome status dashboard.

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Zhombe@reddit

Just make all client side help desk tickets the responsibility of AI. See how fast they change their tune.

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Nietechz@reddit

Nice idea bro. I've ever thought this. Thanks.

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HDClown@reddit

CEO probably read "agentic AI can autonomously make decisions and act" and immediately though: "if I everyone implement this, I will be able to fire a bunch of people, save the company a ton of money, and get me a big fat raise/bonus".

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Superb_Raccoon@reddit

Hey look everybody! It's Arvind Krishna!

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sybrwookie@reddit

"Here, we have an agentic AI which is determining which of our staff in IT are underpaid, and are using the rest of the budget for that to help remedy that issue. Next month, we'll be implementing a similar AI to look at other departments around the company and seeing where any people are being overpaid and make suggestions on where to make cuts based on industry trends."

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tidderwork@reddit

If you could frame this instead as an agentic AI that's designed to maximize effectiveness of existing business resources, which just so happens to result in lots of departments getting pay raises...it would shut down the agentic AI discussion immediately.

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Darth_Malgus_1701@reddit

> LinkedIn I hate LinkedIn so much. All the cringe Facebook-style "Engagement" bullshit makes me want to hurl. Even Glassdoor has the same crap.

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BoltActionRifleman@reddit

Just wanted to add, the CEO has very likely gone to some conference where she heard a speech on agentic AI and that’s the buzzword that stuck with her. Now her team is tasked with making sure the company is keeping up with the ~~times~~ buzzwords.

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saichampa@reddit

Hal 9000 glowing light in the server room

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dank_shit_poster69@reddit

Make an agentic AI that creates 10 other "agentic AI" each month with just the CEO's linkedin as an input. They should all be focused on sending emails to the CEO to stroke their ego in different ways.

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GolemancerVekk@reddit

I know you're kidding but kudos, you've stumbled upon the latest rage in C-suite: agentic AI that generates other agentic AI.

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NoPossibility4178@reddit

OP is back in 5th grade's art class!

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wrosecrans@reddit

> Show to check the boxes. Specifically, the infrastructure team should take credit for the "Agentic AI deploys" that use the infrastructure in any way. So if there are ten other departments each claiming ten Agentic AI deploys, infrastructure rounds up that data and declares "We maintained infra uptime that facilitated 100 Agentic AI deploys across the org this month." Do fuck all with the actually bullshit if you have no need for it. Just generate the metric that management has decided to judge you by. Think of it as being proactive in applying Goodhart's Law. Since management has decided to make the metric not a good measure by making it a target, it would be irrational to worry about the intent too much because that has already been destroyed by the time you got the order. You'll get massive kudos for being on board with the fiction that everybody knows is bullshit. That's a part of playing the social part of the game tech tech people are often bad at. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

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UniqueIndividual3579@reddit

I have a device labeled "Portable AI decision aid". It's a "Magic 8-Ball".

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pmandryk@reddit

This ^^^ is why I love this site. No BS. Just a lot of Chaotic Good.

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BurnadonStat@reddit

Also use more buzzwords. “Boss - the agentic AI is online on the software defined lan and propagating across the blockchain. We will reach terminal velocity imminently.

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PedanticDilettante@reddit

Use the cost of implementing Agentic AI to support your budget increase request

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jrgman42@reddit

That is such a beautiful loophole.

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MBILC@reddit

100% this.. They had some conversation with some other person they know, or a sales person who pushed this idea into their head and now they are throwing it down the chain so they can claim "Look we use AI"

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Sat0shi619@reddit

Nahh they should learn more- https://medium.com/@aksh8t/why-72-of-startups-will-use-ai-agents-by-2025-and-how-to-start-now-c5e68223694e

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KrennOmgl@reddit

This is exactly the wrong approach to AI. The “we need to do something” is always wrong, your company need to develop an AI strategy that match with the business otherwise is a waste of time and money

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BrechtMo@reddit

Let the agent consume your helpdesk information pages and offer it as an additional helpdesk contact.

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Whyd0Iboth3r@reddit

Did you tell them that you will need $1.5M for servers and GPUs to support the Agenic AI?

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AlfaHotelWhiskey@reddit

This. How many idiots are uploading company and client data to free GPT accounts totally oblivious that they should be building a proper secure foundation for a company AI platform first?

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Spiritual_Grand_9604@reddit

Holy shit balls I would want to off myself. Nothing makes me more annoyed than implementing tools just for the sake of implementing them regardless of whether they serve any meaningful purpose

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Sudden_Office8710@reddit

Dude that’s how half the cool shit gets made. You stumble across shit by accident, you find this is completely useless for this situation but you find works awesome for something else. I’ve made a fortune out of bullshit.

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crankbird@reddit

Funny, I was just in the middle of an internal paper where I said “AI is not an imperative for IT Infrastructure practitioners” Back to the drawing board….

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wangage@reddit

Oh it definitely is :)

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crankbird@reddit

On a more serious note, I can see where using it inside of SIEM or other log analysis tools would be useful, or in proactively identifying misconfigurations or helping in a variety of automation tasks, but for the most part that seems to be embedded within toolsets and products sysadmins already use rather than using IT syslogs etc to fine tune something like Claude I’ve got a dozen or so specific use cases where it *could* make the sysadmins life easier but for most of those you already have to have a pretty good IaaS / “infrastructure as code” maturity level which seems pretty rare

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Blu3Gr1m-Mx@reddit

Show to check the boxes we tried servicely.ai complete trash

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Pump_9@reddit

AI is over hyped. Your CEO is giving very ambiguous directions so she's going to get poor results.

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TheMagecite@reddit

Just conflate AI with automations. I don’t know why everyone cares about ai when automating is just so much better.

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poipoipoi_2016@reddit

RAG bot that reads your runbooks and can be used to assist in Slack when someone gets stuck.

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e9n-dev@reddit

Not really an agent, just an LLM with RAG. Agents can do things like restart services.

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NETSPLlT@reddit

I'm collecting user guides, my own build notes, and related online articles for every major piece of my homelab tech stack. Because when I ask ChatGPT how to do something, it's so incorrect it's barely useful as a starting point to search. for example, I have shell scripts to create containers, and ansible playbooks to configure. If I want to implement terraform to deploy, instead of the shell script, I'd like to ask AI to do it. With information of the current environment, it's the dream that AI agent can just do it. Build a container for terraform, configure it to work in my environment. Not that I intend to use terraform, shellscript is perfect fit for me, but ya know... things like that. "I'm thinking of adding an ips or ids, what would be a good fit in here, and what steps would be needed to implement that?" That would be cool.

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spokale@reddit

This, RAG bots are actually super useful. Just make a different one for every Confluence space to check the box!

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dlongwing@reddit

She wants to replace staff with AI agents to save money. Business is likely in trouble. Personally I'd be inclined to ignore the mandate. "This isn't applicable to my team or our jobs." Alternately "We provide the infrastructure needed for AI to function, so we're integral to all departmental deployments." Depending on your tolerance for this nonsense. Another tactic? Ask for guidance on legal liability of AI hallucinations. Send constant news articles about businesses in hot water when an AI promises a customer something untenable and ask how management plans to mitigate the issue. Liability tends to scare morons.

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Tibogaibiku@reddit

Check Kinetica for server and networking management/monitoring. Dell has some parthership with them to provide whole solutions.

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Encrypt-Keeper@reddit

The thing that convinces me down to my bones that AI is a bullshit bubble that will disappear despite all the billions of dollars pumped into it every year is NOT the naysayers. It’s the people and companies that are its biggest cheerleaders. Technology that is as revolutionary as they say it is does not need to be forced down everyone’s throat. They compare it to the Industrial Revolution or the rise of computers in the workplace but although then you might still have seen the naysayers afraid of losing their jobs, at the end of the day the technology spoke for itself. And for such a straightforward technology, AI’s “revolutionary” use cases sure do seem abstract and immeasurable.

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bamaknight@reddit

When i hear Ai in every department. They are looking to see how many people they can replace with it. I mean I can see why some people would use it but most teams could use a report from it not required to do their job.

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TimePlankton3171@reddit

Has she considered blockchain? I've heard great things about it (no idea what it is tho)

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Ayeohx@reddit

Leveraging blockchain enables synergistic optimization of cross-functional workflows, driving scalable innovation through data-driven insights and enhancing value capture across the enterprise ecosystem.

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thirsty_zymurgist@reddit

One could combine these insights into a co-evolutionary framework for scaling AI through business model innovation underscoring the mechanisms and feedback loops.

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Ayeohx@reddit

Thank you for your ongoing collaboration and value-added contributions. Your strategic alignment and results-driven approach have been pivotal in advancing our core objectives and driving cross-functional impact.

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TimePlankton3171@reddit

So beautifully said 🥲 Reminds me of [my uncle](https://youtu.be/GyV_UG60dD4)

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No-Rip-9573@reddit

That’s CEO material right here!

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reelznfeelz@reddit

I can’t remember what it was but I saw some fairly high profile personality talking about “how much that’s going on with block chain” and as someone in tech was thinking “Name one thing other than crypto BS”. I’m sure there is one. I’ve just not ever heard of it solving any problems that can’t already be solved a simpler way.

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Nanocephalic@reddit

NFT something something blockchain something quantum something something

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SoulAssassin808@reddit

I love it when they bring up quantum

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hTekSystemsDave@reddit

Smart contracts! Or something.

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ultimatebob@reddit

Blockchain was 2020's IT meme, along with "hybrid cloud". She needs to show that show that she's keeping up with the IT meme for 2023+, which is currently AI.

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Cley_Faye@reddit

I think an IoT-driven blockchain to validate AI decisions-making process filtered through agents stored in the kubes is the only way to even keep living, obviously.

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RBeck@reddit

Toss it all in the Data Lake and we'll have the AI contextualize the meta data later.

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Cley_Faye@reddit

Hey, I recently found out that some people actually put in place tokens to associate with the risks of other tokens losing their peg (which is also another layer of another arbitrary token), that those token are native (sometimes) token staked and wrapped, and all of this is driven by broken algorithms that can be abused so you can lose the token that's associated with the potential risk of devaluating another token, while you're getting actual token that gets devaluated too. That's a lot of tokens. I also remember when "token" was the term used for "some temporary bullshit during a game of magic, use a nickel or a used match or whatever". Unrelated, of course, but… eh.

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vhalember@reddit

Yes, let's **leverage** it with "the cloud."

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UnkemptGoose339@reddit

If we combine this with machine learning and *the cloud* we could be unstoppable.

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AbleDanger12@reddit

Works best with big data.

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SnooLobsters3497@reddit

If you have any control over the CCTV at your company, install and implement a couple of Hanwha AI cameras

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firesyde424@reddit

This has "exec reading about it and forcing implementation without actually knowing what the hell it means" energy. Might be time to head for the doors.

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--Chemical-Dingo--@reddit

Clown CEO

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XCOMGrumble27@reddit

This. OP needs to start creating a contingency plan because this company is clearly not long for this world with that kind of leadership at the helm.

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jimmt42@reddit

Don’t “poopoo” Agentic AI in infrastructure. Especially as a system administrator. Here is where I think they could be helpful - level 1 help desk / troubleshooting - event driven operation / intelligent action - planning and provisioning (replace self-service portals for servers and other consumable infrastructure) - application deployment / augment automation and CICD

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Krigen89@reddit

Set some alerts in your systems. Alerts go through LLM before a ticket is created. Completely useless, checks the box.

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Crilde@reddit

My company actually implemented something like this and we saw a %40 reduction in mean time to resolution just by having the AI suggest solutions. Granted it was a bit more involved, it was actually hooked into out ITSM system and indexed the knowledge base to reference for its suggestions, but overall it was one of the better AI apps we put out.

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Saragon4005@reddit

I mean I would trust an AI to run through the "have you tried turning it on and off again" all the way to "oh so you don't have power in the building" on its own just from reading Reddit.

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VexingRaven@reddit

I've actually been really tempted to run user tickets through an AI just to see how many of them the AI arrived at the same resolution that's actually in the ticket. Not to actually interface with users, just out of curiosity to see whether AI can do better than our helpdesk.

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Saragon4005@reddit

I'm pretty sure it can't do better then your help desk but it can do just as well 60% of the time when dealing with stupid users.

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VexingRaven@reddit

You haven't met my helpdesk.

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Techguyyyyy@reddit

lol . I feel that.

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Saragon4005@reddit

While that's true these are usually just parrots. Unless you have good documentation it's likely going to just do the same behavior as what it observed on the tickets. So as the saying goes: garbage in, garbage out.

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VexingRaven@reddit

Oh no, I was not planning to train it on the tickets, only the KB and hope that the model has enough existing tech support knowledge in its training data without feeding it our garbage.

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ZipTheZipper@reddit

I'd trust it more than I trust the users.

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cluberti@reddit

LLMs are just pattern-matching, so the more patterns you give it, the better it can "learn" to match. It's not a bad idea.

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dustojnikhummer@reddit

Ticket solution suggestions are one of the few actual good uses I can think of.

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ProgRockin@reddit

I think a successful implementation of this is rare, may I ask is this an out of the box offering from your ticketing system or a homebrew vector store/LLM?

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reelznfeelz@reddit

You can pay ServiceNow $200k and they’ll hook you up with something like this too. They’re nuts and going all in on everything is “AI”. Probably because they sell to C levels not techs or admins or devs. The idea of agentic AI for L1 ticket triaging is actually not a bad one. But you don’t need to pay SN 6 figures to do it. Integrations can be a pain though. And having the “bot” access org specific knowledge bases requires some special tech and setup. Still though.

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nullpotato@reddit

A chatbot that only asked "did you file a ticket?" would probably save my team 40% of customer interactions

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WorkLurkerThrowaway@reddit

I’m curious what kind of tools you used for this. I’d love to support my Helpdesk team with something like this.

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secrook@reddit

You’ll need to index ITSM data (ticket data, documentation, etc) in some type of vector database, develop a chucking & embeddings strategy, build an API to remotely query your vector DB (RAG), integrate the API with an external or internal LLM, then generate prompts to guide the LLM through the workflow you want it take.

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Crilde@reddit

Listen to this one, he explained it much better than I did in another comment lol

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Crilde@reddit

We built it ourself. In house C# program using Microsoft's Semantic Kernel and Kernel Memory, backed by Azure OpenAI and Azure Cognitive Search as the backend services for the AI magic and Document Memory for the KBAs, respectively.

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pdp10@reddit

I think we just found Satya Nadella's Reddit account.

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Crilde@reddit

I'm flattered, but I'm just a lowly platform engineer working at a Microsoft-specializing MSP lol

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Status_Network_8882@reddit

Interested as well!

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Krigen89@reddit

Interesting. I guess I stand corrected.

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cluberti@reddit

Even with all the hype, there are valid use cases today. Anything that can generate patterns that can be parsed with something good at ingesting and pattern matching text for contextual clues (which is really what an LLM is doing) is going to be good at this, and a lot faster than humans at it given enough patterns to start matching against.

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Krigen89@reddit

Maybe if you have a good kb. My colleagues refuse to populate ours, basically.

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cluberti@reddit

Yeah, that's a non-technical problem that AI can't solve for ;). Could be a good forcing function, though.

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digitaltransmutation@reddit

We have it suggesting playbooks. tbh my favorite part of this is that everyone had to go and add good readmes for everything instead of the garbage they usually write.

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pdp10@reddit

> We are finally nailing good documentation, too bad the audience is just a robot. The implication is that humans wouldn't write documentation before, because no humans were ever going to read it...

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d00ber@reddit

A robot is the ideal audience for documentation only because it will actually read it.

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AlexisFR@reddit

Yep. We implemented an LLM agent into our ticketing system so we can use it to search for recurring issues and potential known solutions, it's quite useful.

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hTekSystemsDave@reddit

Honestly you could set up *two* "agentic AIs" here. AI one monitors system alerts and attempts to open tickets (acts as the requestor). AI *two* talks to AI one and actually opens the ticket (acts as agent).

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Krigen89@reddit

IRL, Your AI one is really just an email sent from the system to the ticketing system... MAYBE power automate or zapier could do something nice here. Absolutely no need for a LLM to open the ticket

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hTekSystemsDave@reddit

Oh there's absolutely no real reason to do this. I was just helping OP with their "we need to implement X AI's even if they do t do anything" problem.

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TDR-Java@reddit

Tickets…. Let an LLM write you some tickets if alerts come in.

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UptimeNull@reddit

The ai does not ai..but i am also not sure why 10gb sfp doesn’t fully inject your ai Sfp interjection with stimulus points while your ai stimulation had haulicauinations on the 1gb ipv4 port transports let alone the ai that talked talked you into the ai that the ai set up with an ai account with full hAaayy I didnt do it at the end 🙃 Im just a bot 🤓

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Ciderhero@reddit

Sounds like a requirement for an AI CEO that responds to emails with basic decisions, and creates strategies based on trending phrases on LinkedIn. Compare the output of the current CEO and their salary plus perks, versus the output of an AI bot doing the same for a few hundred bucks. Send the proposal to the Chairperson and investors. Promote it as an industry-disrupting innovation that could provide a revenue stream, rather than the current solution that does not. Added benefit that it will not fabricate fake expense claims, or tries to fuck the interns.

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Breeze312@reddit

Jeez, man! She has a family! 😂

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mrkesu-work@reddit

*"So here you can see our first AI. It generates word puzzles,* *and over here is our second AI. It solves the word puzzles."*

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Valdaraak@reddit

>10 agentic AI deployments every month Big lul. We've been working on *one* AI agent for the last 3 months and it's still not ready for release. A requirement for 10/mo might very well get me telling them flat out that can't happen based on what the department's purview actually is.

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agent-squirrel@reddit

We are also working on a proof-of-concept AI thing driven by Bedrock. It's especially stupid since we are trying to cut costs everywhere and have had to decommission SaaS tools that we rely on because of cost. Plenty of money to throw at a useless AI toy though of course...

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ZombieAble7425@reddit

we've been working on one (with a vendor) for a year or so and it's terrible

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trobsmonkey@reddit

My company has been teasing for the last year our AI agent. In January we got invites for the big premiere across all of IT. The week of the premiere it was cancelled. Our company head, "The agent is not performing as the vendor advertised, we will not be moving ahead".

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ZombieAble7425@reddit

Ours is some pet project our owner wants to be able to sell to other MSPs. We're told to test drive it often to help 'train it' and provide feedback to the vendor. What a waste of time. It seems to be getting worse with each iteration.

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Valdaraak@reddit

Much of our complication is just typical Microsoft assery. If we point an agent to a Sharepoint location for its knowledge base, we get shit results. If we upload those files manually into the agent's knowledge base, it's more or less spot-on. But that's not scalable, nor an option for knowledge files that change regularly.

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topazsparrow@reddit

Conveniently Microsoft sells a co-pilot product that magically works with sharepoint without those issues. What a crazy coincidence!

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Cley_Faye@reddit

Oh I'm sure it's totally doable to churn out dozens of AI agents on demand. Useful, efficient, or even barely passable is not in the requirements.

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wrootlt@reddit

She didn't specify they must be working. Just to create 10 :)

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topazsparrow@reddit

It's certainly going to expose who the yes men are in the company pretty quick.

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Anthropic_Principles@reddit

Best implement one to polish your resume and auto apply for jobs, because your CEO is heading on a path towards blowing up the company.

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chicaneuk@reddit

Boy this is all gonna end in tears.

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UnexpectedAnomaly@reddit

Sounds like you need to deploy clippy to every computer.

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fadingcross@reddit

Parse network logs to a syslog system. Have AI interpret it and flag potential unwanted traffic. It's suprisingly good.

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DharmaPolice@reddit

Introduce an AI agent to collect monitoring stats or something meaningless like that. It won't actually benefit anything but it shows compliance which is all they want.

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random408net@reddit

Help payroll, HR and accounts payable get up to speed on AI tools ;)

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elitexero@reddit

> Anyone else dealing with this type of push-down request Yes. What am I doing about it? Saying I'm 'looking into it' while doing absolutely nothing about it and getting through our ongoing backlog of actual work rather than waste time on fantasy 'AI' running everything requests. When it was brought up, I asked if we would be given some kind of resources to host said 'AI' and I was told to get a working proof of concept on my laptop first and if viable, we would secure resources. So not only am I to aimlessly develop some kind of nonsense 'AI' tools I have no need for, I'm expected to do it on a laptop with an nVidia T600 with 4GB of VRAM. Just waiting for this shit to blow over, and it will.

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many_dongs@reddit

This is the “have brilliant idea for startup, need developer to code application, will pay with equity and exposure” stupidity, enterprise version

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elitexero@reddit

Pretty much. I love the scenario of I'm being tasked with something, but I have to use inferior hardware to 'prove' said project before I'll be given resources by the very person requesting this in the first place. Like sure, let me battle uphill, hindered by you, to make your stupid vision come to life. I'll get right on that.

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many_dongs@reddit

It’s gonna be huge. It’s gonna be like uber except for everything. We just need someone to code it

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elitexero@reddit

Oh boy! And you say for my trouble I get a massive amount of stock in this absolute anchor??

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many_dongs@reddit

15% standard founders share

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Next_Information_933@reddit

Lame. I will say though AI is getting great at dev work. I've started using it for the initial pass at any automation scripts I've come across. Or I'll feed it scripts to verify formatting and ensure the flow works. I was a skeptic this time last year but now I'm all for it.

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pjustmd@reddit

This is the tail wagging the dog.

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Ok_Conclusion5966@reddit

use chatgpt to make a bullshit answer, obviously they don't know what they are asking so you can present literally anything

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bbqwatermelon@reddit

AI can actually help with this. Seriously ask it how to best use it for this. Try copying and pasting exactly what the CEO said. AI is great for not overthinking.

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Traditional-Hall-591@reddit

AI is great for not thinking, you mean.

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Sacred-Librarian-857@reddit

Oh man, I've seen this scenario play out at a few companies (that's where a lot of my new "I need AI" clients come from tbhh)! I feel like boards pass down the pressure of jumping on the bandwagon of the next hot-thing to the poor teams who alr seem to be overworked... Is that how it is for you? I can't say much from your team perspective, but a few of our clients that I manage AI projects for at RPI group seem to be in the same boat as you.. From my experience here, I would say the key is finding that sweet spot where the agent actually saves your team time rather than becoming another thing to maintain. I've found the most successful deployments are ones that automate tasks your team already does repeatedly. specifically for server/network management, here are some ideas i can suggest: 1. Automated incident response agents to diagnose common network issues, restart services, or clear logs based on specific triggers 2. Resource optimization agents that build something/recommends server usage patterns . Documentation generators tools that scan your infrastructure and auto-create/update documentation (maybe popular with auditors??) Happy to share more specific examples if any of these sound interesting - we've built several custom agents for IT/other teams that needed to show "AI adoption" while actually getting real work benefits. its a balance between checking those exec boxes and building something useful!

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Practical-Alarm1763@reddit

Why don't you ask an existing AI agent how to create a more useless AI agent.

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sbrick89@reddit

route all IT support tickets from senior management into the agent's queue... let it try to troubleshoot the problems for you... then they can see how much they suck :)

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Fine-Subject-5832@reddit

Defender uses AI…. Check mate

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peteybombay@reddit

You CEO needs to flush their head cause it's full.

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zonearc@reddit

I work with agentic AI as a consultant for a slew of businesses. Not many, but there are those with these lofty goals set at C-level. My recommendstion is to create an AI governance council that includes dept heads across the business. Meet monthly and discuss challenges they have. Not technical challenges, but business challenges. You're the expert so document their needs and ismdentidy low hanging fruit. Could you take CoPilot and knock out some of these with a developer or two on that payroll over the next few months? Which ones would require an investment and be easier to solve with off the shelf products that leverage AI? Get help gmfrom the governance council to draft these in to small business case proposals and start tossing them up the chain. Best case: You land a role as an AI exec in the coming year to help drive impactful change that reduces operating costs and increases revenue. Worst case, they realize that implementing agents AI is costly and time consuming and they slow down, and instead ask you to help vet out 1-3 GOOD projects and work on those instead.

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User1539@reddit

We had a bot for years in our chat channel. It was stupid simple, and you could ask it simple things like 'Are all the servers up?', or 'When is the next maintenance window?' ... we'd give it stupid little commands for fun, when things got slow. We added AI to that, just to play with it. I bet you could do something like that in a day and your CEO would think you were building an AI coworker, secretly hoping he'd replace all of you ... when, really, it's just a bot with a few bells and whistles.

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Cheomesh@reddit

How the heck do you even do that

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teeweehoo@reddit

I'd try to find something both useful, and unimportant (so that it's easy to throw away later). Ticket summarising? Monitoring something? Fancy dashboard? (management loves dashboards) Tickle me elmo linked to chatgpt?

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t3kk58@reddit

If you use M365 and have copilot (AI), look at Graph connectors, they have apps and “agents” you can use for various apps and on even on premises agents that you can “integrate” in to copilot (AI).

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dgeiser13@reddit

Agentic AI barely exists.

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SpaceCadetEdelman@reddit

10 Every’munf?

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e9n-dev@reddit

Deploy the ultimate infrastructure AI agent. Tell it that it's a senior system administrator. Give it an SSH key and documentation of your infrastructure and see what happens.

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Cereal____Killer@reddit

Start by investigating Ansible, playbooks are prevalent and easy to adapt for various infrastructure implementations. Ansible Automation Platform, once you have playbooks you can start looking at the Ansible Decision Engine which allows for some automated execution of playbooks.

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ErikTheEngineer@reddit

I still don't get why CxOs seem to want to hasten the destruction of society. Not, "Oh, the computers are going to rise up and kill us _Matrix_ style", but the knock on effects of having zero jobs for entry level college students. Only thing I can think of is McKinsey told them they'll be safe in their gated communities while we all fight over the last scraps of wealth.

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bz351@reddit

10 Every month, your ceo shouldn't be in leadership. She doesn't even know what she is talking about. The we just want Ai to do things and stuff without direction. I also wait for the company to have all its data leaked and shut up shop. I bet the kicker here is we have $0 budget for this....chat gpt free right lol 😆

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OpenGrainAxehandle@reddit

Use it to answer emails from upper management.

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SASardonic@reddit

Goes without saying but your leadership is cooked

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flunky_the_majestic@reddit

Plenty of leadership teams have sailed through decades-long careers on dumber ideas. They might be just fine.

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SASardonic@reddit

I meant intellectually, less their jobs, but yes probably

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many_dongs@reddit

This assumes the average executive suite is smarter than this, which they typically are not

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LAKnerd@reddit

Y'ALL I MADE A MEME ABOUT A YEAR AGO ABOUT THIS SHIT!!!? https://preview.redd.it/eytaf3s0it3f1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2cf64bb42b9b7dd233416674c47c1766497f1b3

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Kingkong29@reddit

How about an AI that sends said CEO a random compliment everyday via teams or an email. 😜

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NorthStarTX@reddit

IT tends to move in waves like this, in my lifetime I remember the hammer looking for a nail being: * SMP clustering in the early 2000s * VMware in the late 2000s/early 2010s * Cloud for most of the rest of the 2010s * *aaS/serverless coming into the 2020s * LLM/AI <- you are here That said, working with new technologies, even doing stuff you can already do without it, leads you to understand those technologies and how they can actually be applied in more useful ways. Becoming an early adopter can advance your career quite a bit if you can figure out clever ways to use it.

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altodor@reddit

> LLM/AI <- you are here I absolutely see these more as NFTs that weren't associated with something that many already thought was snake oil. NFTs/Blockchain absolutely also go in that "2010s-2020s" bucket but you sure don't have them on your list for some reason.

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NorthStarTX@reddit

The big difference is that LLMs actually have valid use cases. NFTs were broken from conception, there's no way to build a system of contracts without building a system of enforcement, and nobody was interested in blessing that mess. LLMs on the other hand, exist primarily for two reasons: * to speed up production through automation and standardization * to skirt copyright and patent law by obfuscating the source of information Even if they don't make big strides in the first one, the second one will keep businesses coming back. That's why I don't classify them in the same bucket as NFTs.

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altodor@reddit

The same reason you treat them as important is why I treat them as a sham.

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NorthStarTX@reddit

The reason I treat them as important is because they're already in widespread use, and I doubt many of those uses are going to go away any time soon. Some of those uses are going to be dumb, probably most of them. The difference between that and NFTs is the difference between most and all.

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altodor@reddit

"Use of PirateBay is widespread and not going away anytime soon, therefore we need to support CEOs demanding cracked software in enterprise". That's how you and all the other LLM apologists sound to me.

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NorthStarTX@reddit

Personally I think it's more like the use of open source software in private enterprise without properly contributing to upstream, which violates the terms of the license and could probably be interpreted as immoral/illegal. I can see the argument but it doesn't much matter from a practical standpoint if I want to continue to be in the industry I'm in.

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many_dongs@reddit

Based on how stupid the CEO sounds, replacing them with an AI agent is probably more useful than trying to do the stupid shit they said to do

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DerfK@reddit

You have to work with what you've got and what you've got are the servers. Next time the CEO comes by, wave her over excitedly to let her know she's just in time to see it in action. See, it monitors every employee's inbox and when there's a sale it automatically updates the website to reflect the new sale price for your services, and it just picked up emails about a Memorial Day sale. It just emailed you to let you know this so you can reply to the AI and tell it to cancel in the next 5 minutes in case it was incorrect, otherwise it will publish the new prices. When the CEO objects, tell her sorry you didn't realize there wasn't a sale and that you'll draft the email right away. Narrate it to her as you go. *Dear Selly* - that's what I named it since it handles sales. *I am writing to inform you that the Memorial Day sale is not an approved event.* No, I can't just "stop it", it's an AI you have to write to it in English or it won't understand. *Do not update the prices. Sincerely, me* Hm, I should send this to chat GPT and ask it to make it easy for an AI to understand....

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RBeck@reddit

So are they going to throw down for a bunch of nVidia cards, sign and SLA with an AI vendor, or just have everyone uploading company data to ChatGPT.

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simpleittools@reddit

Wow, your CEO just pulled a "Tell me you don't know what Agentic AI is, without telling me you don't know what Agentic AI is."

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sonicc_boom@reddit

10 every month? Lol

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1h8fulkat@reddit

1. Config Drift Detector Agent – Compares live server/network configs against known-good baselines and flags unauthorized changes. 2. Firewall Rule Optimizer Agent – Analyzes existing rule sets and proposes consolidation or cleanup of redundant or overly permissive entries. 3. Group Policy Analyzer Agent – Reviews GPOs for misconfigurations, security gaps, and inheritance conflicts, and suggests corrections. 4. Storage Allocation Reviewer Agent – Audits SAN/NAS provisioning vs. usage and recommends volume resizing or tier migration. 5. ACL Policy Summarizer Agent – Converts low-level access control lists across switches, firewalls, and shares into human-readable summaries for review. 6. Privileged Access Evaluator Agent – Scans AD and Linux sudoers to identify over-privileged accounts and recommend scope reductions. 7. DNS Configuration Validator Agent – Parses DNS zone files and resolver configs to detect misrouted queries, loops, or stale records. 8. Certificate Chain Inspector Agent – Reviews all TLS/SSL certs across systems and flags weak ciphers, missing intermediates, or expiry risks. 9. Interface Configuration Synthesizer Agent – Aggregates switch/router interface configs to propose VLAN standardization or unused port cleanup. 10. Backup Policy Consistency Agent – Analyzes backup job definitions across systems to ensure retention, schedule, and scope align with policy. 11. (Extra special) CEO Appeasement Agent - comes up with bullshit agents to create for the sake of creating to make the CEO look like he as an AI strategy.

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burner70@reddit

WIll probably get downvoted, but here's an actual strategy you can try to get to fulfill the request. (1.) Get 10 people a pro version of Claude 4 opus. (2.) Spin up an n8n box (in AWS whatever) which is accessible externally via domain name so that M365 etc can verify & writeback. (3.) Connect Claude and/or your workflows to chatgpt or other LLM API's. (4.) Watch videos on n8n & agents that have come out in the past month on youtube to get a feel for how they work. (5.) Also look at MCP Servers [https://mcp.so/](https://mcp.so/) and what they're about. have you 10 people identify 1 difficult problem in the org and see if they can no-code-build workflows with agents that help fix the problem. Not every problem requires agents, sometimes all you need is a workflow...

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TEOsix@reddit

Smart companies are locking this down to sandboxed environments.

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Koldcutter@reddit

Get well versed in n8n and mcp

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1RedOne@reddit

Something cool would be to dump your system reports and stats somewhere and then you could use an agent to query the data For instance if you have splunk or whatever to monitor resource usage you could make a cool demo showing which systems are running low and improve performance or identify machines about to lose a drive using SMART If all of your projects are caught up this would actually be super fun

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adx931@reddit

Use AI to generate bullshit hyping something newer and more impressive than "agentic ai" and that the most successful companies moved to that three years ago.

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tarlane1@reddit

We are starting down the AI path, but doing it in a more measured way at least. Tighten security, pilot group of VPs so when security wasn't tight enough we can catch it, then slow roll outs. Starting with Chat and Office extensions. Training as we go, etc. Agents are on the list but all the way at the end and just for spots it makes sense, like making an HR agent to answer peoples questions about the employee handbook or something. It feels like if you are going to give departments a mandate to spend that kind of time and resources on workflow things, 95% of the time they would do better getting some power apps/automation in play over agenic AI.

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badhabitfml@reddit

Sounds like when my company was pushing for bots and automation using ui path. Each goeup had to have a project and they were tracked on how much money and time they saved. Monthly meetings and reports. A few years later a d we don't have ui path anymore. It was a pain to program and slow. I spent days trying to get it to automate something for me. I ended up writing a powershell script in half the time that runs hundreds of times faster and doesn't take over my computer when it runs.

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vpv518@reddit

Can AI automate SSP documentation or ticket creation/routing yet? Cuz that's about the only place I want ai in my area.

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InternationalNinja29@reddit

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the_crafty_pipsquack@reddit

https://i.redd.it/5vsb0gmvns3f1.gif

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shoveleejoe@reddit

Deploy an instance of n8n and start with agents to simply analyze logs/alerts. The goal is not to immediately make significant optimizations, it’s to build the muscles and experience/familiarity using AI agents. 10 deploys per month doesn’t mean you’ll have 120 actively running/used agents in a year, not all of those agents will pan out or be as useful as envisioned. Maybe more importantly, agents should be used for very specific tasks, so think about a common, small, simple task within a larger, more complex step of normal work. Think small and repeatable. Have an agent generate ideas for a monthly IT newsletter. Then next month have an agent parse requests to IT and summarize them. The month after that add an agent to include the summary of requests as context for the newsletter topic generator.

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TLShandshake@reddit

Someone actually trying to answer the question and giving a good solution as well! I'm really disappointed in what this thread turned into. Thank you for taking the prompt seriously.

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hiveminer@reddit

Jokes aside, there are lots of ways to implement agentic AI. From HR agents, customer agents, all the way to ai email sandbox. In all honesty, I would see this mandate from the top as a good thing. Essentially it boils down to this, what menial, drudgery, time consuming tasks can you automate with ai? In IT, log analysis and patching comes to mind!!!

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auriem@reddit

Use it to make inspirational poetry like this : Ten bots every month Or your team "lacks vision" — Hope you like weekends. Growth at any cost Agentic or just frantic? Decks won’t build themselves. AIs born from fear KPIs dressed as vision, Deadlines wear a crown. The bot churn begins Quality? Unspoken ghost. But hey — we hit ten. Departments scramble Innovation by decree, With metrics as gods. Agentic on paper A dashboard full of progress, Reality gasps.

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RichardJimmy48@reddit

Sounds like a great excuse to make people talk to an AI chat bot before they can escalate to your team.

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popularTrash76@reddit

What a tremendous waste of time

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Calm_Run93@reddit

yup, this falls in the 'bad management' category.

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hkusp45css@reddit

Ah, the solution is in search for the problem. When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. One of the nice things about being in a smaller org is that I can look at my CEO and say "No, that's not the direction I'd like to take with my team." and 9 times out of 10 I'll get "Oh, OK." in return.

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SixtyTwoNorth@reddit

> When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. <3 One of my favourite sayings!

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rainer_d@reddit

The list price for the AI option for our Web Application Firewalls starts at 20k per device per year.

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pdp10@reddit

Get an LLM chatbot to negotiate you a 70% discount from list. Count that as one instance of agentic AI.

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rainer_d@reddit

Hahaha. It doesn’t work that way with these vendors.

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beachandbyte@reddit

Deploy n8n and build a couple workflows that use AI and to analyze top 20 most concerning logs or exceptions per day etc.. one u do one u can make 100 copy paste

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FantmIT@reddit

Make some popcorn and sit back. My company is trying it, and it's been a giant cluster. A few things are working OK but most is just a failure.

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SeigneurMoutonDeux@reddit

We're kicking off a 1-year long EHR migration soon, along with a full migration to the cloud, so I've been able to threaten retirement if they make me implement AI solutions.

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RndmAvngr@reddit

Over there fighting the good fight

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tristand666@reddit

All C level support is now AI driven!

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Turbulent-Pea-8826@reddit

IT should make an AI CEO app.

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tristand666@reddit

I mean, we need to keep the pace up, so that one is coming.

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BreathDeeply101@reddit

CEOs are the highest paid, so if we're looking at efficiencies and reducing salary costs that's a good one to start with!

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SolidKnight@reddit

If not AI then I'm sure we can offshore it to somebody for $4/hr or subscribe to CEOaaS.

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token40k@reddit

Claude is asking peasants to use more Claude, sounds about right

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TheIncarnated@reddit

Get CoPilot for Visual Studio Code, do a little PowerShell IaC and boom, done. This is pretty simple

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haywire@reddit

Just put zed on max mode and burn through as many tokens as you can on claude 4 opus getting it to do obvious shit until they realise it’s actually more expensive.

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mkbelieve@reddit

rofl, there are just going to be so many companies dying from self-inflicted wounds in the next couple of years.

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Top_Investment_4599@reddit

She's seen one too many AI conventioneers and AI ads.

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Generico300@reddit

"I implemented an agentic AI that reads Forbes articles and then makes poorly informed decisions which it implements as company policy. We should be able to save several million dollars a year in C suite compensation as a result."

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R1skM4tr1x@reddit

Rebuild a ping checker that returns back more than Pong

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flunky_the_majestic@reddit

Previously: Automated pings stored time-series data that automatically populates dashboards and metrics tables tied to alerts. Now: Engineer: Tell me the average latency for service X in the last 12 hours AI Agent: Service X has had an average latency of 312ms over the last 12 hours Engineer: Why can't I reach service X? AI Agent: Service X is operating normally Engineer: Serivce X isn't responding to pings from my workstation at 10.234.12.3 AI Agent: Good catch! You are right. Service X has been down for 11 hours 39 minutes 21 seconds.

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ExpressDevelopment41@reddit

I'd consider any automated task "Agentic AI". An Azure function app that deallocates non-essential VMs at the end of the day and starts them in the morning would qualify. So I'd probably use stuff like that to fill in my list as needed. In my experience requests like this fizzle out pretty quickly and are usually just leadership checking off boxes themselves. You can also look into something like Terraform to do some IaC stuff, which would probably cover every month until the initiative fades.

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vNerdNeck@reddit

i hope that directive came with an 8 to 9 digit budget.

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povlhp@reddit

The economist is writing about how companies abandon ai programs. It delivers bad output in most cases. Have the AI invent 10 things you wrote an AI agent for. That is at least 1 solved.

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baremetalrecovery@reddit

I'm in the same boat. Board want "AI" everywhere, quick. C-levels and everyone else don't even really know what it means, so we're all scrambling to go through motions, and make processes, and turn features on, and are in desperate search for problems to put the AI solution on. Not only that, but we have to create all sorts of metrics around it and show improvement every month. And yes, all the metrics are arbitrary and of questionable value. I feel like a madness has taken over. Cannot wait for this bubble to pop.

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pseudocide@reddit

I bet you can find a product you are already using that is implementing some AI function you can claim credit for.

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topazsparrow@reddit

10 a month though?

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mooseable@reddit

Monkey discovers hammer, goes looking for nails

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JustNilt@reddit

More like monkey hears about the word hammer ...

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DaarthSpawn@reddit

Asinine.

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JustNilt@reddit

AIsinine* /s

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nixium@reddit

Ok. I build these and that’s an insane idea. You can’t build a chatbot that gives good consistent answers in a month, let alone 10 agentic in a month. So let’s be generous and say that your ai agent gets it right 85% of the time. If that process is only part of a process and another agent gets it’s part right 85% of the time then the entire process will be only 80% successful. You are introducing insane risk.

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pdp10@reddit

`.85 * .85 = .7225` 72% successful.

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atomic__balm@reddit

Just fucking do it, plug everything into the slop factory and watch the world burn. Silent sabotage is the only way out

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topazsparrow@reddit

The CEO thinks they're being clever by asking their staff to train agentic AI to do their jobs so they can be fired.

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Sudden_Office8710@reddit

🤣 😂 got a quote to run Splunk managment choked on the price. Looking to setup an ELK stack to mess with its agentic adjacent 😂 it’s a step up from looped bash scripts. I’m very low tech but my environment gives off the perception of agentic in a Ferris Buehler kind of way. No one knows what they hell I do but people really like me

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cccanterbury@reddit

Check out Obot.ai for decent ai agents to show the CEO

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SeriousBuiznuss@reddit

Model Control Protocol (MCP) for Kubernetes clusters?

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BarelyAirborne@reddit

I thought it was the boss's job to implement new tools and procedures. Sounds like they're saying they can't do their own damn jobs any more. So what's in it for you? Is it nothing? Because I bet it's nothing.

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jeffffeffff@reddit

responses to this post are giving me new life

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ycnz@reddit

How unique and interesting. Your CEO is truly visionary, definitely earning their salary.

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PutPrestigious2718@reddit

I work in agentic ai, to say your leadership is jumping the shark is an understatement.

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Phate1989@reddit

Care to elaborate? This seems like a normal way for leaders to push progress. Yea not every division will succeed but some will.

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visibleunderwater_-1@reddit

AI-based killbot for vendors / visitors to the facility so they don't "stray" off their assigned visitation path.

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cluberti@reddit

Do you have a helpdesk and a knowledge base? Build an agent that can take support queries and run it against the KB. Then, you could use the agent to build and file the support ticket for version 2.0 if the problem was not solved via the agent and the KB. Just a thought.

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schrodinger1887@reddit

Kind of sounds like some leadership invested in the AI before they even knew what they were going to do with it.

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tobascodagama@reddit

Launching a new startup, rubberduck.ai, which exists solely to provide Rubber Duck debugging as a service.

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ChronicOW@reddit

I’m in the same boat, I build a RAG solution as internal knowledge base and now the whole company wants something from me, but not only that they also heard about AI agents and want to get in on the hype, so my last week I been knee deep in MCP, unfortunately the state of that protocol is a lot of hype and currently there are some major security considerations that you need to be well aware of before your start implementing any sort of mcp server and client(agent) that will consume this server. So treat with care :) but anyway depending on which software packages you use there are already hunderds of mcp servers out there that you could use for something, so might be worth to check out the modelcontextprotocol github and documentation, goodluck

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No-Rip-9573@reddit

So the next fad after “cloudification” is agentic AI?

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ambscout@reddit

My personal opinion is that AI is a buzzword for some stuff that's been around for a while. Generative AI has much improved but those chat bots have been around for a while. There are many instances where the technology has been around for a while like computer vision but now we are calling it AI

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Coffee_Ops@reddit

Ask ChatGPT how you can deploy an "agentic AI" that does not affect operations but appears to be useful to C-level types. Then provide similar instructions to the agentic AI ("appear useful in a way that will appease C-levels").

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BronnOP@reddit

Spin up 10 VMs per month and tick the box lmao

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photosofmycatmandog@reddit

What does that even mean?

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Ayeohx@reddit

I hope AI hoses your systems so badly they'll have to pay truckloads of overtime to fix it. Or it kills everything along with backups. Whichever you prefer.

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Competitive_Duck_454@reddit

AI based auto emailer for outages. Just give it a list of employees with job titles and have it start emailing them when outages (planned or otherwise) occur. Make sure CEO is emailed on everything so they see it's "working".

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liko@reddit

Just deploy an ollama with open webui. If you want to get fancy you can build a dumb RAG app to query your network/ server manuals. Or go a little deeper with LangGraph and write some python scripts to query the server/switch state then feed that to ollama to summarize.

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AmusingVegetable@reddit

Did said leadership also provided you with testbed infrastructure, and sufficient cloud credits, or are you supposed to simply fart an agentic AI directly into production?

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ballzsweat@reddit

Get your resume ready!

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UbieOne@reddit

Ofc, let the AI ready the resume. lol.

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Appropriate-Cat-1230@reddit

Ask the AI for AI ideas.

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ohyeahwell@reddit

#[FEED ME A STRAY CAT](https://c.tenor.com/b4GLSHam8a4AAAAC/tenor.gif)

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pdp10@reddit

Alf?

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stellae-fons@reddit

Also dealing with this at my workplace.

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Nik_Tesla@reddit

Make an AI Agents that sends all AI demands from the CEO to the trash

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ImCaffeinated_Chris@reddit

I'm literally sitting in a FANG building looking at a slide projection that says "Agentic AI" while reading this thread 🤣

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LaserKittenz@reddit

This is easy for the infrastructure team.. Just make agents to do some primitive triage for alerts or handling issues... 10 a month seems a bit much though.

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Remarkable-Bluejay73@reddit

Tie in AI so it mines data from Business Intelligence for the double win! /s

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Infninfn@reddit

It doesn't have to be autonomous or decent agents. Even the Copilot Agent that is basically a custom GPT will do. Have it RAG some infra documentation so that you can ask it about XYZ policy. If you have multiple document libraries or folders in a document library holding documentation for specific stacks, create an agent for each stack. Teach your business users how to create an agent using agent builder to query their document libraries for whatever it is that they do with documents. Show them the Copilot agent usage reports from the admin centre.

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superfry@reddit

Use it to automate helpdesk response messages and analyze types of common problems (and employees) in your tickets. Now 'problems' you have identified and may cause blowback on yourself is now an issue the AI has identified. Basically a free consultant. Ironically it's the type of thing AI is actually good for, parsing datasets. I would also take the opportunity to spec out a badass server to build your own AI models for 'data security' (oh hey now I have a new marketable job skill).

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MirrorLake@reddit

Management: Oh yes, and please fire anyone who isn't actively trying to replace themselves with a bot.

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twitch1982@reddit

You can get an agentic AI to search for uses for Agentic AI. Thats one down, 9 to go.

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TheFluffiestRedditor@reddit

Malicious compliance says yes, and watch everything crash and burn.

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zeptillian@reddit

Easy. Just setup one and have it perform 10 agentic AI deployments for you each month. The work will do itself. /s

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lilelliot@reddit

One option is to license a traditional RPA product that also has added agentic capabilities (like Blue Prism, Pega, Automation Anywhere, etc) because then you can automate processes that aren't really applicable to agentic AI, but also have the toolbox to apply AI agents to automate/simplify things where they'll excel. For example, you could use traditional RPA to automate the ticketing/triage/allocation process that leads into the funnel where someone potentially creates an AI agent to attack or automate something where it makes sense (like writing new powershell scripts, polling SNMP traps and providing insights, etc). Another option is to propose to leadership that they invest in the ultimate agent: a conversational front end for end users to the IT department, which then leads to a combo of "solve your own problem" and "let's apply automation to solve your problem" and "nope, I really do still need a live person for this one." At least, this is how I'd probably approach it. I'd also, though, ask for a top-down explanation of the applied AI strategy and why/how they came up with the metric.

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Savage_Burner@reddit

My current org built a Slack bot that pulls info from our Confluence space to answer questions and links the KB it pulled from. It’s also connected to our AWS instance and can report basic things like cluster status, check logs, and identify deployment issues. You have to interact with it directly, though. Our DevOps team gets bombarded daily so I can see it being helpful, but I’m not sure if it’s currently used in production.

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AmateurishExpertise@reddit

>Leadership wants all departments implementing "Agentic AI", even my Infrastructure team Smart! Everyone should be trying to adopt important technologies quickly to gain competence and best leverage the efficiencies they bring. Staying up to date is more vital than ever. >Our CEO has told all department heads that she wants to see 10 agentic AI deployments every month across the company Absolutely bonkers. Instead of supplying a general directive to their VPs/Directors and counting on them to apply it practically, they're micromanaging everyone with KPIs that aren't K or PIs and are completely arbitrarily pulled out of their rear-end, while providing no strategic guidance or meaningful business goals.

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bubba198@reddit

put on another show to check the boxes

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sluzi26@reddit

Your CEO is a child with an above-average reading level and should be treated accordingly. Provide a MVP with some fizzie wizbangs monthly and cl it a day.

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agent-bagent@reddit

I’m working on this right now. We’ve got similar directives. :) Honestly, embrace it. If you actually consider what LLMs are good and bad at, I’m sure you can find tons of use cases. 99% of the use cases won’t be “unilaterally replace xyz with an LLM”. It will be more like “80% of this workflow can be reliably handled by an LLM with a human validating its output”. Example for us: we have a process for customers to request new physical hosts on-premises. Procurement, provisioning, deploying, racking, etc. It’s largely driven through JIRA, but when the JIRA shit was setup, it didn’t include strong reporting, SLA tracking, other nice to haves. We’re using an agent to “quarterback” that process and proactively alert customers/stakeholders throughout the overall process. LT can easily get ad-hoc reporting on SLA breaks, or whatever they want. We even have the LLM updating our Device42 records at the end of it. There’s a shit load of opportunity and it’s damn easy to find. Huge opportunity for you to embrace it and with relatively low-effort, produce high-impact results.

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scriminal@reddit

ask chatgpt what you should do :)

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First_Code_404@reddit

Your CEO is an absolute moron

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AdmRL_@reddit

If you have Microsoft licensing just go to Copilot Studio. Had a similar situation and now we have: Mailbox Monitoring Agent - has a bunch of triggers for random legacy and secondary mailboxes, if a user accidentally emails them with a support query, it forwards the email to the support inbox. If it's a GDPR thing, it forwards to our DPO, if it's a known 3rd party querying something, forward to management group, etc. Alert Handler Agent - to reduce alert spam we turned off ticket creation for routine alerts, now they get dumped in an Azure queue, then at the end of the day the agent grabs the queue data and does stuff like emailing specific people/teams, posting teams notifications, raising tickets, etc. SLA Agent - as a pet project I built some custom connectors to access our ITSM platform, agent has a schedule trigger and runs twice daily to check SLA's, if any Cat C - A tickets are nearing breach, it escalates the ticket. Plenty of minor tasks and routine processes you can automate via a Copilot agent reliably. Just do an agent per task rather than giving multiple tasks to a single agent and that'll get you across the arbitrary bar they've set.

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NoyzMaker@reddit

Have an agentic AI spin up ten unique solutions every month and report it. Problem solved.

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Nu-Hir@reddit

Your CEO obviously hasn't seen Terminator 2. Do you want Skynet, because this is how you get Skynet.

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aiperception@reddit

Wow, that blows. Your CIO must not have good leadership skills if they let the CEO govern like that.

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BadSausageFactory@reddit

replace the word 'scheduled task' with 'AI generated event based on temporal analysis' AI your backups

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BlueHatBrit@reddit

Raise a few PRs each month where you get an LLM to improve your documentation. Don't give them any specifics on what it's done, just say "it's helping us with our daily work and it's in the driver's seat for tasks we trust it with". Leave it at that, and then move on with life!

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MeatPiston@reddit

Eh just feed it some logs or your tickets and have it write a summary. That’s what it’s good at, just watch out for hallucinations.

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sunburnedaz@reddit

1am network usage high 2am network usage back to baseline 3am elves rebooted the router 4am network usage back to baseline

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Geminii27@reddit

10 Alcoholic Incidents per month coming right up, boss!

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ExceptionEX@reddit

Implement them all in help desk, create an agent that responds to tickets, or silly simply shit that the brass will likely but don't meaningful cause you issue.

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ScroogeMcDuckFace2@reddit

ask copilot a question or two, call it using magnetic AI, move on with your life

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Beneficial_Tap_6359@reddit

Tell them you're excited to work with the "AI Team" that will help you build all this!

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Subject_Estimate_309@reddit

Run now. Your company is run by idiots

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brokenmcnugget@reddit

this is the internet, Jen

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mixduptransistor@reddit

The general demand that you roll out AI or agentic AI without a problem statement to solve is bad enough on its own but \*10 a month\* is insane. Just absolutely nuts. She sounds completely incompetent as an actual leader

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vedichymn@reddit

There was a recent RunAsRadio show on this topic which might be useful jumping off point: https://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/981

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Carter-SysAdmin@reddit

I've heard of this happening elsewhere as well. Just the energy use impacts of entire companies of workers being told to randomly poke at AI without a true end-goal in mind makes me feel gross.

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Popular_Basil756@reddit

Automate all doors, put AI in charge is opening them.

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Alzzary@reddit

It's time to use the Wally Reflector!

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Ok-Whatever-397@reddit

Just implement something from r/shittysysadmin that needs constant tweaking and oversight so when they fire you because they "have A.I." it'll all collapse.

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Newbosterone@reddit

Chatbots are Agentic. Code up one that asks “did you put in a ticket for that?” Instant productivity increase.

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zero0n3@reddit

Build an agent that will commit code review changes to your scripts / modules / configs. Things like: - documentation - code clean up - standardization Then the “agent” will read your projects in git, and then produce a merge request with fixes for the above things. Start there if you want something that may be useful for your team.

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Turbulent-Pea-8826@reddit

Every department? Some AI for the IT people to deploy is doable. Expecting the finance or Marketing people to develop and deploy an AI tool is laughable. 10 a month is also a complete joke.

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Newbosterone@reddit

Ten a Month? Someone is going to start counting every update as a new Agent.

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The_Wkwied@reddit

Cool, good reason for IT to start to manage facilities. The community fridge? AI. The quantum bit level AI processing is able to detect temperature changes, and activate compressors and fans to keep the interior at a user-specified food-safe temperature. The microwaves? AI. The high frequency AI driven algorithm powers the magnetron for a user-defined period of time, and using humidity sensors, is able to cook food to the perfect (or rare-perfect, or well-done-perfect) level, as the user wishes. Man I really should had use GPT to generate that nonsense. But yea, fridges and microwaves and anything with a timer is technically a pre-programed AI. That sounds stupid. Because it is. A clock isn't AI but marketing thinks it sells.

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colossalpunch@reddit

Step 2: now that you’ve implemented AI, we’re reducing your department’s budget by X% because of AI efficiency!

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StarSlayerX@reddit

You can't just blindly implement Agent AI and expect it to work well. It requires discovery of where processes can be automated, engineering of Agent AI along with other Flow Processes, Testing, Deployment, and then refinement.

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e_t_@reddit

Cut! Cut! Cut it! [He spits.] I said this is a talkie, damnit! You've got to emote more! And you extras, wave your arms and make faces. What is this, a morgue?

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Mattyj273@reddit

Dumbest things I've heard this hour

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lightmatter501@reddit

Give an agent read-only access to stuff and task it with making ansible playbooks. Make another read logs and raise alerts on things that a human should look at.

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Frothyleet@reddit

Collect all of your scripts that include "if-then" statements - that's the AI you already have in use, you can trickle those out.

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Turtle_Online@reddit

r/shittysysadmin

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Warm_Share_4347@reddit

Disclaimer as I am working for the company and managing the company. [Siit](https://www.siit.io/ai-agent) is providing a modern ITSM with native AI capabilities such as article suggestion before creating a request, triage and go even with your own instructions to automate some access requests and so. The rule of imposing AI projects from the leadsetship doesn’t make sense indeed, but if you have too there are solution made for sysadmins and happy to help if relevant :)

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bluescreenofwin@reddit

I can give general advice. I've been leading a project to automate (including introduction to agentic AI) for the past several months. Automation (or the act of having playbooks or AI do the thing for you) is one of the final steps of the overall process. I would highly recommend breaking down the requirements from your leadership (ask them their goals and put it in writing) and then before coding or introducing tooling the processes must be clearly defined and written out. If you do a lot of ad-hoc things that require a lot of tribal knowledge, and your processes aren't well defined, you're gonna have a bad time. Good information systems design look something like: **Information Systems Design** \- **SRADIVTOR** **S**takeholder Needs **R**equirement Analysis **A**rchitectural Design **D**evelopment/Implementation **I**ntegration **V**erification & Validation **T**ransition/Deployment **O**perations & Management **R**etirement/Disposal When you do get to the building, after architectural design (where the thing will live, how it will be built, how it will be accessed, what it will do, and how it will do it--it's important to understand this even if you deploy a SaaS thing like Claude, ChatGPT, etc.) you can look at the various LLM agents out there in the ether. I got a list and here's the order of my list that it's in: [https://github.com/slavakurilyak/awesome-ai-agents](https://github.com/slavakurilyak/awesome-ai-agents) If I had to spitball for you, knowing nothing about your team or environment, maybe start with something like an agent assisting with the management of your source of truth (a la https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox) and automating all the reporting pieces. Then maybe work observability. Have it do the tedious/checkbox-y stuff your team doesn't want to do for starters. Good luck!

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t4thfavor@reddit

Ask AI how to deploy the wireless network refresh to the C-Level suite, follow it to a T and then let the CEO know that AI designed their wireless deployment. That should solve it.

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Additional-Coffee-86@reddit

Ask for a few million dollars in extra budget and you can do it

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themattstratton@reddit

It might be worth looking at using the MCP server in Steampipe and/or Tailpipe along with Cursor or Claude - potentially useful for querying against cloud resources/infra and generating reports. As others said, this is a hammer looking for a nail problem, but this actually might be helpful for you as well as "checking the boxes". (disclosure - I work at Turbot who created these tools, but I am do think this is a useful agentic AI fit for you) [https://github.com/turbot/steampipe-mcp](https://github.com/turbot/steampipe-mcp)

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BaconGivesMeALardon@reddit

Way too soon!

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MrYiff@reddit

I imagine it will all go fine until they start seeing the costs of all this new AI software.

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PontiacMotorCompany@reddit

Take a look @ N8N and Claude & ChatGPT & Loom(These are all you need to impress). Determine what workflows can be automated and scaled. Heck ask your CEO what shes struggling with and the top costs for the department. You will always need Humans in the loop due to the paradox of automation be sure to inform her of that and reference the other CEO's walking back their AI initiatives after firing employees.

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Key-Level-4072@reddit

Sounds like your CEO is not awesome, lol

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Dr_Doctor_Doc@reddit

Throw back some buzzwords and put 5 or 6 in a prioritized list, then deploy & draw out the tuning process to delay. - AI powered observability (there's so many sub categories to this you could eat for months) - code refactoring - deviation-from-norm analysis

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