HN775: How To Train Your Very Own AI-Enabled Slackbot

aka, lets make GenAI into a Network Engineer?!

2 min readApr 11, 2025

Summary

On today’s Heavy Networking, we’ll discuss building a Slackbot wired to an AI and trained on your own organization’s knowledge. The potential use cases for network operations are fascinating, and today’s guest, Kyler Middleton is here to explain the finer details on how to do it and point us to free resources created so that anyone can build an AI-enabled Slackbot, too.

Episode Guest: Kyler Middleton, Principal Developer, Internal AI Solutions, Veradigm

Kyler Middleton’s focus at Veradigm is on pioneering cloud uplift and DevOps culture transformations, which perfectly aligns with years of experience in IT services and engineering which helps drive cultural and business process advancements within the organization. Kyler is also LetsDoDevOps.com Founder, DevNetSecOps, Day Two DevOps Podcast Host (seeking sponsors!), AWS Community Builder x2, Microsoft MVP, and Cloud Security Chick. Whew. Anything else? Oh yeah, CEO of 14ers Consulting where Kyler has spent close to a decade building a firm centered on innovations in tech and solutions for their clients.

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