CLOUDY MUSINGS

You know how this usually goes...you wind up pulling the monthly AI spend report and the number is just that...a number. "Anthropic API: $14,200." No breakdown, no context, no indication of whether your team built something genuinely useful or spent three weeks regenerating the same 8,000-token system prompt on every single call. The invoice knows what you spent. Unfortunately, your invoice (by itself) has no idea why you spent what you did. The graphic above breaks it down:

I have been attending Microsoft events in one form or another for a long time, and I have learned that the first wave of conference reactions is usually not where the real story lives. The first wave is always loud. It's the keynote clips, the social posts, the product names, the demos, and the inevitable rush to figure out which announcement is the announcement everyone should be talking about. That's useful to a point, but I usually find the more interesting story a little

Now that I have your attention, know I've started digging into Bicep. It only makes sense, as I'm pretty deep into ARM Templates and...

One of the things I've enjoyed over the last almost 5 years of all Azure all the time is digging deep into code...specifically ARM...