I Used AI to Write My Latest eBook. Here’s What Actually Happened.

Let Me Be Honest With You

The eBook you are looking at right now, Mastering IoT and AIoT with Favoriot, was built with AI. Not just assisted by AI. Built by it. And I think that is worth talking about honestly, because the story of how this book came together tells you more about where we are with AI than any think piece I could write.

Here is the confession: most of the infographics inside were generated through ChatGPT. The eBook itself was assembled using Claude Cowork. I pointed it at my folder of infographics, and it categorised them, selected the best visual style, and structured everything into a coherent ladder from awareness to mastery. And the post you are reading right now? Claude is pushing it automatically to this blog.

I did not type all of this. AI did a significant part of the heavy lifting.

So Why Am I Telling You This?

Because I think the dishonest version of this story, the “I wrote a book” version with no footnotes, does everyone a disservice. We are at a moment in technology where the tools are genuinely extraordinary, and pretending otherwise is a form of intellectual cowardice.

But here is the thing I want you to sit with: the book is real. The frameworks inside it are real. The five rungs, Awareness, Foundations, Methodology, Production, and Mastery, those came from twenty-plus years of watching IoT projects succeed and fail. They came from UTM, CELCOM, MIMOS, from REDtone IoT, from every Favoriot deployment where a client came to us six months too late because they had skipped Rung 2.

The AI did not invent the Build-Readiness Ladder. I did. The AI helped me package it.

And I think that distinction matters enormously, not just for me, but for anyone trying to figure out how to use these tools without losing themselves in the process.

Every Buzzword Wave Brings the Same Temptation

I have been in IoT long enough to remember when “digitisation” was the buzzword that made executives nod without understanding. Then it was “big data.” Then “Industry 4.0.” Now it is AI everywhere. Each wave brings the same temptation: to let the tool become the story instead of the outcome.

What I tried to do with this eBook, and what I try to do with every piece of content I create, is stay anchored to the practitioner’s reality. Not theory. Not a showcase of what the technology can do in a lab. What actually ships. What actually fails. What the team on Rung 3 needs to hear at 11pm when their deployment is fighting them.

That is what I hope the five rungs give you. A ladder you can put your weight on.

Here Is Exactly How the AI Toolchain Worked

I want to be specific because I think the specifics are useful.

The infographics came first, from ChatGPT. I gave it the concepts, the frameworks, the key messages, and it generated visuals that I reviewed and curated. Some were brilliant on the first attempt. Some took five iterations. A few I threw out entirely because they were technically wrong, and that is the part that requires a human who actually knows IoT. The tool has no idea whether MQTT is correctly positioned in an architecture diagram. I do.

Claude Cowork then looked at the full collection, forty-three diagrams, and did something I genuinely did not expect it to do well: it read the logical progression across them. It understood that the Awareness diagrams should open the book, that the Production use cases belong after the methodology chapter, that the Data Storytelling infographic is the bridge between Rung 4 and Rung 5. It organised the ladder better than my first draft did.

Is that intelligence? I do not know. But it was useful, and I am not going to pretend it was not.

What AI Cannot Do

If you are an IoT practitioner reading this, the lesson is not “use AI to write your book.” The lesson is that your expertise, your hard-won, field-tested, scar-tissue knowledge, is the thing AI cannot generate. It can package. It can structure. It can format and distribute. But the rung-by-rung logic inside this eBook? That came from doing this work for two decades.

That is what I want to give you. Not a showcase. A ladder.

Now It Is Your Turn

Download the eBook (Note: Return later to see the download link). Start at the rung that makes you uncomfortable, that is always the right one. And if you want to talk through where you are standing, find me on LinkedIn or drop me a message through Favoriot.

The tools changed. The climb has not.

What rung are you on right now, and what is keeping you there?