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“The Token Bill You Didn’t Know You Were Running Up”
Three habits that quietly inflate your AI bill AI does not charge by the question. It charges by the context. Every turn you send re-tokenizes the entire conversation above it: system prompt, memories, style preferences, every previous message, every previous response. Turn one is cheap. Turn twenty is paying for turns one through nineteen, plus…
Understanding Azure App SNAT Limits and Challenges
Your Azure App Is Fine Because the Weather Is Fine Every App Service instance gets 128 SNAT ports. That number is guaranteed. It is also, quietly, the only number you can count on. Beyond that floor, the stamp your app happens to be running on maintains a shared pool of additional ports fronted by the…
Congratulations, You Paid Twice!
The first consumer protection AI doesn’t have You ask a question. The model answers with total confidence. You point out it’s wrong. It agrees enthusiastically. “You’re absolutely right.” Then it generates the corrected answer. Congratulations. You just paid twice. Once for the mistake, once for the apology. No other product works this way. Or so…
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