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 againContinue reading “Why Your AI Assistant Acts Like a Goldfish”
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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, plusContinue reading ““The Token Bill You Didn’t Know You Were Running Up””
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 theContinue reading “Understanding Azure App SNAT Limits and Challenges”
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 soContinue reading “Congratulations, You Paid Twice!”
Why AI Code Review Needs a New Approach
You Can’t Smell Bad AI Code What if the tool saving you the most time is also creating problems you’re not equipped to find? That’s not a hypothetical. That’s Tuesday. For years, experienced engineers developed a sense for bad code. It had tells. Inconsistent naming. Shortcuts in the wrong places. Comments that explained what theContinue reading “Why AI Code Review Needs a New Approach”
The Hidden Art of Forensic Engineering in Cloud Support
The Hardest Support Job You’ve Never Heard Of When your car breaks down, the mechanic lifts the hood. When your cloud app breaks, your support engineer is standing in the parking lot. Listening through a closed window. Taking notes on the sound. That’s not a metaphor I invented to be dramatic. That’s the actual jobContinue reading “The Hidden Art of Forensic Engineering in Cloud Support”
How AI’s Future Depends on Data Provenance
The Low-Background Steel Era of AI In my last piece I argued that the internet was never a clean dataset, and that AI is now polluting its own water supply by training on its own exhaust. Several people asked the reasonable follow-up question: so what happens next? Does the whole thing degrade into fluent mush?Continue reading “How AI’s Future Depends on Data Provenance”
How to Challenge AI for Better Insights
A few weeks ago I wrote about a mindset shift that changed how I use AI: I assume it’s wrong until it proves otherwise. That post got a lot of traction, and the most common response was some version of “okay, but how do you actually do that?” Fair question. The mindset is one thing.Continue reading “How to Challenge AI for Better Insights”
Podcast Episode: AI Adoption And Cloud Engineering
Pip: Welcome to Azure Advice — where Christoph Corder has been quietly solving problems that most people are still complaining about in Slack. Mara: This episode covers two stretches of territory: how AI tools actually get adopted — and whether they're trustworthy enough to deserve it — and then the operational side, specifically how AzureContinue reading “Podcast Episode: AI Adoption And Cloud Engineering”
Podcast Episode: Debugging Production Failures
Pip: Welcome to Azure Advice — where the authentication is broken, the memory is leaking, and the connection pool is set to self-destruct every thirty seconds. Christoph Corder has been busy. Mara: He has. Today we're covering authentication failures at the protocol level, memory leaks driven by a cascade of zombie processes, a health checkContinue reading “Podcast Episode: Debugging Production Failures”
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