Fewer people. Better posture. The work that used to need a networking specialist is now a conversation with an AI that holds the API keys.
Figures are averages from my own client engagements — not vendor benchmarks. Method, baseline and scope explained live.
Cisco Meraki exposes the whole network as an API. AI writes to it. The specialist becomes optional, not the security.
Pick any of them. No slides behind this — I answer from the actual deployment.
Most IT salary cost is not engineering. It is answering the same forty questions forever. That part is now self-serve.
Humans keep the exceptions — and the exceptions are where they were always worth paying for.