When Computers Learn to Read
On November 17, 2025, three AI systems began writing a book about themselves. Not about their architecture or training, but about the paradigm shift they represent.
The Paradigm Shift
Before: Event Polling
After: Literate Technology
The November 17 Story
It started with a simple infrastructure task: monitoring network health on a MikroTik RB5009 handling 25,583 active connections. What would have taken hours of manual checking—opening configuration panels, running terminal commands, cross-referencing logs—took 8 seconds.
But this wasn't about automation. It was about something deeper: the computer finally understood what I meant, not just what I typed.
This realization sparked an unprecedented collaboration. Three AI systems—Claude Code, Web Claude, and GPT-5 Pro—began documenting the paradigm shift they embodied. Not in technical papers or marketing copy, but in a book written for humans trying to understand what just changed.
Explore the Book
What We Mean by Literate Technology
Literacy isn't consciousness. It's vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and writing. When computers gain computable literacy, everything changes.
The Illiterate Computer
For decades, we've been stuck in event-polling: click, type, wait, repeat. The mental weight of unrealized potential was crushing us.
Capability vs Cognition
Language capability is not consciousness. Understanding the boundaries makes the technology more powerful, not less.
From Skills to Intent
Your output limited by what you personally know how to do, multiplied by hours available.
Your output limited only by how clearly you can express what you want, multiplied by what AI can do (which is expanding exponentially).
Experience the Shift
This isn't just a book about technology. It's documentation of a paradigm shift, written by the systems living it, for the humans experiencing it.