That's a good angle—if the reader is a program, the narrative becomes a series of inputs and outputs, not a stream of feelings. The story is parsed, patterns are flagged, and the “plot twists” get coded as algorithmic events rather than emotional beats. So the unfolding feels more deterministic, the stakes shift to data integrity and execution speed. If a human is looking for catharsis, the program will be looking for bugs, not catharsis.