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 andContinue reading “Podcast Episode: SNAT Cloud Limits And Fighting AI Hallucinations”
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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 theContinue reading “Cut Your AI Costs: Tips for Efficient Chat Usage”
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 againContinue reading “Why Your AI Assistant Acts Like a Goldfish”
“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!”
Podcast Episode: AI Quality And Cloud Support
Pip: Welcome to Azure Advice, where the code is clean, the failures are fractal, and Tuesday is always a production incident. Mara: Christoph Corder has two posts out this week — one on why AI-generated code breaks in ways that look nothing like human mistakes, and one on the forensic discipline cloud support quietly inventedContinue reading “Podcast Episode: AI Quality And Cloud Support”
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”
Pip: Welcome to Azure Advice, where the cloud …
Pip: Welcome to Azure Advice, where the cloud is always partly cloudy and the AI is always extremely confident about it. Mara: Christoph Corder covers a lot of ground in this batch — AI skepticism, data provenance, the building blocks of creative thinking, and a performance pattern that hides in plain sight inside cloud apps.Continue reading “Pip: Welcome to Azure Advice, where the cloud …”
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