From Open Innovation to Silent Survival: The Developer's Dark Forest

This essay reframes the current tech landscape as a 'Dark Forest' where the rational strategy has shifted from open sharing to strategic silence. As corporations weaponize AI to replicate individual innovations at scale and governments consolidate control through surveillance, developers face an asymmetric threat that favors hiding over transparency. The piece warns that we're transitioning from optimizing for success to optimizing for survival—a fundamental paradigm shift that threatens the collaborative ethos that once drove innovation.