Network Break 412: IT Spending, ChatGPT, Cloud Repatriation And Other 2023 IT Speculations

Take a Network Break! For our first show of 2023 we skip the news to spend some time speculating on technologies and trends that may influence IT and networking in the coming year. We’re joined by guest prognosticator Ethan Banks. We discuss: *  A potentially positive outlook on IT spending this year * The influence of AI, machine learning, and ChatGPT in tech * Data center network automation and whatever happened to Intent-Based Networking * Cloud repatriation * Security’s continued growth Sponsor: DPUs And The Future Of Infrastructure – A Packet Pushers Livestream Join the Packet Pushers on January 23rd, 2023 for a Livestream event on the future of DPUs and infrastructure, sponsored by Dell Technologies. We’ll talk about how DPUs accelerate workloads, what network engineers need to know about DPUs, operational and business benefits, and more. Sign up now for this free online livestream at Packetpushers.net/livestream. Show Links: Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT as ‘substantially harmful’ for coding issues – The Register Temporary policy: ChatGPT is banned – Stack Overflow Why posting GPT and ChatGPT generated answers is not currently acceptable – Stack Overflow