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Podcast Episode: Hallucinations Are a Design Decision
Pip: Welcome to Azure Advice — where today's question is whether the AI tools we're shipping are useful products or just very confident fiction generators with good PR. Mara: Christoph Corder has been writing about exactly that tension. This episode focuses on one territory: how hallucinations happen, why they keep happening, and what the engineering…
Hallucinations Are a Design Decision
Most AI hallucinations aren’t model failures. They’re design failures. Here are 10 fixes you can ship this week, from letting code handle the facts to a 1965 troubleshooting method that still beats most modern guardrails. None of them require a better model.
Your Next Best Engineer Doesn’t Sleep: Why Azure SRE Agent Belongs on the Executive Agenda
The Azure SRE Agent significantly reduces incident mitigation time from hours to minutes, automating complex correlation tasks and enhancing operational efficiency. With over 1.8 million incidents handled, it allows engineers to focus on value-added work instead of tedious investigations. Effective governance is essential for leveraging its capabilities securely.
Podcast Episode: The C.H.R.I.S. Protocol: How to Challenge AI Root-Cause Analysis
Pip: Welcome to Azure Advice, where the cloud is always partly cloudy and the root cause is always the database — until it isn't. Mara: Christoph Corder has a post up this week on exactly that problem: how to interrogate AI-generated root-cause analysis before you act on a conclusion that only looks right. Pip: Let's…
The C.H.R.I.S. Protocol: How to Challenge AI Root-Cause Analysis
Oct 7, 2026 · @christopher Corder An AI-generated root cause is a hypothesis, not a finding. Treat it like one. Preferably like a hypothesis from a new hire who has never seen production. In platform support, the cost of a wrong RCA is not abstract. A customer rolls back a deployment that was never the…
Podcast Episode: SNAT Cloud Limits And Fighting AI Hallucinations
Pip: Welcome to Azure Advice — where the cloud is always fine, right up until it isn’t, and someone has already written the post-mortem. Mara: Today we’re covering work from Christoph Corder across two territories: the hidden networking constraints that make Azure App Service quietly dangerous, and the economics of AI getting things wrong and…
Cut Your AI Costs: Tips for Efficient Chat Usage
Pip: Welcome to Azure Advice, where the chat window looks free and the bill disagrees. Mara: Christoph Corder has been writing about the hidden mechanics of AI assistants — how context windows fill up, what that costs you, and whether anyone should be paying for wrong answers in the first place. Let's start with the…
Why Your AI Assistant Acts Like a Goldfish
Every chat feels like a conversation. It isn’t. Your AI assistant is a goldfish holding a photograph of you. It forgets you the instant you hit Enter. Then a script slides the photograph, the entire history, and a small mountain of standing instructions back in front of it, and it reads the whole pile again…
“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…
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