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.
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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'sContinue reading “Podcast Episode: The C.H.R.I.S. Protocol: How to Challenge AI Root-Cause Analysis”
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 theContinue reading “The C.H.R.I.S. Protocol: How to Challenge AI Root-Cause Analysis”
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””
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”
Mastering AI: Effective Strategies for Critical Analysis
Pip: Welcome to Azure Advice, where we ask the hard questions — like whether the AI you're asking hard questions of is actually giving you hard answers. Mara: Today we're working through a piece by Christoph Corder on how to actively challenge AI reasoning rather than accept its first output — the method behind aContinue reading “Mastering AI: Effective Strategies for Critical Analysis”
