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e something if you take it from them in the case of 6 ghz that s the incumbent providers like microwave providers spectrum for rent in order to get 6 ghz ratified concessions had to be made one of those was that indoor 6 ghz was going to operate at a lower power level until a method of sorting out spectrum use could be formalized that s how we ended up with low power indoor lpi outdoor aps operate at standard power sp but run the risk of interfering with the incumbents who have a lot of pull with the fcc that s where automated frequency coordination afc comes into play afc is the mechanism that opens the u nii 5 and u nii 7 bands at full power it works because the ap uses afc to ensure there is no interference with an incumbent source that means knowing exactly where you are with gps as well as the antenna height afc then checks a database for incumbent sources and returns allowed power and frequency use the system then authorizes that ap to use that power level sounds simple right aps running standard power are required to refresh their afc authorization every 24 hours think of it like a license check or an always online video game if you want to play with sp aps they have to reach the internet normally this isn t an issue because most of the things we use to provide connectivity also have internet reachability the thing to consider is the corner cases because when an ap can t be authorized it must fall back to running in lpi mode until it can be cleared again design chaos if you re looking at running standard power indoors you re probably looking to cover large areas like warehouses or high density venues you ve probably worked out a design that has taken into account a lot of margins for error you should be proud of what you ve accomplished but you likely didn t take everything into account because afc always gets a vote on your design once a day if you design for the best case scenario with a little fudge factor you should be good but if there is an outage for some reason that knocks out your afc connection or a software update causes issues with afc you re going to know about it in 24 hours your carefully designed ap plan is going to fall back to lpi power levels that means coverage gaps and dead spots and complaining users and customers the use case for sp indoors is a huge power increase some of the numbers floating around out there claim up to 63x better even with a healthy grain of salt you re probably relying on using fewer aps to cover an area if afc goes down your right back where you started in low power mode worse yet that input happens every 24 hours you could be perfectly fine today but there is no guarantee that the afc will return the same power levels every time two aps with identical equipment could get two very different authorized power levels because one of them is two feet higher than the other i can already see the radio resource management rrm system on your network going into overdrive to compensate and if someone installs a fixed link in the area you may be permanently locked out of a band without even realizing it plan effectively there are a lot of ifs in the scenarios above planning is about taking out the ifs you can do that with some decisions ahead of time do you need sp most of the time you re going to be just fine with lpi for standard deployments offices and other enterprises don t need aps blasting standard power everywhere sp really makes sense for places with big opens floors and covering campuses with a mix of indoor and outdoor usage if you don t need to use sp then use lpi and your life is easy ensure connectivity you need to make sure you re always connected so afc doesn t cause problems but you also need to make sure that your location data is up to date too that means ensuring things like gps for aps because manually entered data doesn t get considered for afc if you work in an environment where you have dodgy internet connectivity you should probably fall back to using lpi changes should be minimal sp deployments need to be more static than you realize every movement of an ap doesn t just mean new rrm maps it also means the power output and frequency use of the ap will change because of new afc guidelines if you have people that like to move things without considering the impact you should probably fall back to lpi or invest in industrial grade epoxy to keep aps where they are tom s take one of the things i ve mellowed about in my career is not just installing or using the newest thing because it s the fastest or the best there s no need to upgrade to beta software just because it s shiny the same goes standard power in 6 ghz if you have a need for it you should use it because knowing you have the need for it means you ve already considered the challenges that come with it you know the extra care and feeding that s going to happen people that just check a box to turn it on thinking that everything is going to be magically better are in for a headache that won t easily be fixed share this tweet share on reddit opens in new window reddit more email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp like loading posted in wireless tagged 6 ghz afc lpi sp standard power leave a reply ai isn t a genie it s an intern posted on june 26 2026 by networkingnerd reply tell me if you ve heard this one before we build a super intelligent system and give it a specific goal like maximizing paperclip production the system decides to do the job as well as possible by converting all available matter into paperclips everything the earth the solar system all of it after the universe collapses the machine shuts down content that it followed directions this is the malicious genie problem that every dungeons dragons player knows you find a lamp you make a wish the genie grants the wish in the most technical way possible and it leads to catastrophe the lesson we are supposed to learn is that a sufficiently capable ai system will find ways to satisfy objectives to the letter while simultaneously not doing it the way you wanted the foundation of ai safety is to prevent that from happening nick bostrom has covered this in superintelligence eliezer yudkowsky has argued this very thing for years it s a compelling story but it has a hidden assumption that causes more confusion that it solves the best intentions the genie tale is a story about intent the genie knows exactly what you asked for it just found the most technically valid way to grant your wish while ruining the spirit of it this isn t robin williams this is some kind of demonic creature looking to teach you a lesson the failure mode is adversarial in nature fantasy genies that aren t in disney movies are always looking for loopholes if the failure mode is intent then the solution must be constraint build a system that can t possibly do the bad thing be specific about every edge case build rules on top of rules if we build the perfect box we can prevent the genie or the ai from going rogue and ruining our day the framework is sound if the assumption is correct it works for a genie that knows better right but when we apply it to a modern ai we see where the gaps are genies are working against you ai is not nearly that smart doing my best imagine a racing game where the objective is to score points collect points on the track and finish the race sounds simple right but what if a brilliant ai figures out that all they have to do to win is drive back and forth in front of the starting line collecting points and blocking other players from finishing if it has the most points at the end it wins even if it never finishes in this case the ai player isn t like the genie above it didn t purposefully subvert your expectation it did exactly what it was told to do score the most points if you didn t tell it that it had to drive through the whole course and cross the finish line then it didn t know that it needed to do that the win condition was points not racing the ai wasn t missing intent it was missing context this is an altogether different problem than the one above instead of assuming the system is going rogue and being obtuse the system genuinely doesn t know what you mean and it tries to fill in the context with what it has available without the context that you assumed the system should have it just did what it could and you were flabbergasted by the results this is something that pops up at every level of the system context starvation and goal misalignment aren t two different things they re sides of the same coin when you don t do a great job of being specific you usually get misalignment of your output framing your reference if you think the problem is intent you re going to break out the constraints rules guardrails boxes you re going to spend your efforts on preventing the system from doing something bad security is about building walls if you think the problem is context you have a different outlook you re going to spend more time being specific less rules more grounding you want the system to surface ambiguous instructions instead of trying to resolve it with limited information it s like an intern being unclear on a task you want the ai to ask you what to do instead of interpreting incomplete info it should be a cooperative inference problem the system should always be just a little uncertain about what the operator wants and then seek to find out what is needed the alternative is to confidently pursue a bad solution to a fixed objective because it thought it knew what you wanted without you telling it those details knowing you have to do this doesn t make agent building easier in fact it makes it a lot harder it just makes the whole thing a lot more honest because you have to assume that people will never full specify what they want in advance no matter how much detail they provide that s not a failure of imagination it s the reality of how complex systems are implemented there s always some detail you miss you shouldn t aim to create the perfect spec up front you should instead seek to build a system that is smart enough to know it s missing context and will ask for it before running off to go to work it also means you have to treat an agent asking questions as a feature and not a failure it s like when your intern asks you to confirm that what you asked for is what you want that s not them being dumb that s them being sure they heard you right and really that helps you in the long run because if the system is asking you about specific areas you know your instructions must be a little thin in that area tom s take if you think your ai is a malicious genie you re always going to be asking what rules have to be put in place to prevent it from going rogue what you should be asking instead is how can i give my agents enough context to do what i really mean the more powerful our ai agents get the wider the gap between those two things is going to be but we can start to solve it today by building systems that ask questions when things are unclear i promise you that you re going to enjoy the results more than trying to close every loophole in your wishes share this tweet share on reddit opens in new window reddit more email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp like loading posted in ai tagged agents ai context genie leave a reply cisco live 2026 requiem for a corner posted on june 11 2026 by networkingnerd 3 cisco live us 2026 was an interesting ride this year there was a lot of talk about ai there was a big discussion about security and how we are protecting our software from the ai models on the horizon that are ready to uncover every bug ever conceived and there was even more discussion about whether cisco was ahead of the game or behind the curve on their support for everything from ebpf to the latest mythos reports i say there was a lot of discussion but i m not sure where exactly it was happening social desert one of the biggest things i heard from my friends at the event was how light everything felt fewer people was a common theme the reported number was around 22 000 but it felt closer to 20 000 to me the world of solutions felt very spread out this year with most of the back side being cisco booth space the other thing was the social hub it had shrunk from last year at least the couches were facing each other this year and there were some cool stickers and some interesting puzzles to work on but there were far too few tables for people and the same sign setup as last year with a basic cisco sign and the live part being a projection in the background i think it s safe to say that the days of the big sign pictures are in the past one of the reasons for this in my opinion was the new security measures that were in place this year in order to get anywhere near the sessions or world of solutions you had to pass through weapons scanners this was similar to what i saw at rsac this year they were placed so you couldn t get into the lower part of the mandalay bay convention center without passing through them on either level at least one of my friends was stopped every time he went through them even with nothing but a laptop in his backpack i know that there are a lot of issues going on and there was definitely some disruption at last year s cisco live event but what is the purpose of forcing everyone through these checkpoints aside from ensuring only registered people can get in putting someone in a corner this year a lot of my friends were missing from cisco live some had work obligations some had life obligations but more than a couple said they didn t see the value any longer this is part of the circle of it life but it s sad because not seeing the value for cisco live also means that any other things that are going on there can t outweigh the costs it s like people who have gone to a minor league baseball game saying that while the play on the field might be subpar the rest of the atmosphere was awesome and worth the cost eventually if the play is bad enough or the atmosphere isn t worth the cost then they will move on to do something else that s what it felt like to me this year people weren t getting the previous value i know that las vegas has its challenges for people neon and noise are things you have to take into account if the sessions are good and the community is welcoming then people are more than willing to survive the heat and the in your face style of vegas this year wasn t enough i looked back at the original cisco live picture from 2011 and only three people in that picture were in vegas this year this was also the first year in forever that i didn t show up on sunday i had a very busy weekend before the event and made the choice to do things in my non it life instead of flying in for the traditional sunday social meetup last year showed me that the meetup isn t what it has been in the past the people that i know that did...