💣 “How to Be a Machiavellian Programmer (In an Industry of Soft-Skulled Sycophants)”
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🧵 In an industry obsessed with clean code and collaboration, nobody wants to admit the truth:
The real winners are Machiavellian.
Not toxic. Not unethical.
Just strategically ruthless.
Here’s how they rise — and why you’ll keep watching them eat your lunch:
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🔥 1. Control the Protocol
> Apps come and go. Protocols persist.
The Machiavellian doesn’t build the house — they build the zoning laws.
Want to win long-term? Write what others must obey.
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🔥 2. Weaponize Compatibility
> A tiny API change, undocumented behavior, version drift...
That’s not a bug. That’s asymmetrical warfare.
Watch their dev teams drown in support tickets.
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🔥 3. Open-Source the Bait, Keep the Power
> “Community-driven” means you let them touch the edges, not the core.
Licensing is a sword. PR is the sheath.
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🔥 4. Fork, Improve, Out-market
> Contribute. Learn. Fork. Rewrite.
Then dominate the marketing channels so the original looks obsolete.
They had vision. You shipped execution.
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🔥 5. Be the Bottleneck of Trust
> Everyone builds. Only you verify.
Own the compiler. Own the audit framework.
Own the “source of truth.” You’ll become the church.
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🔥 6. Automate the Conquest Loop
> CI/CD for betrayal.
Bots for growth.
AI for strategy.
Scripts don’t sleep, and neither should your ambitions.
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đź’€ Truth Bomb:
> Most devs want to be loved.
Machiavellian devs want to be inevitable.
And the worst part? They rarely write the best code.
They just write the rules.
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🪦 Stay soft, and you’ll die in a Jira ticket.
Stay naïve, and you’ll watch your repo rot while someone else cashes out your idea.
Or get strategic.
Get surgical.
Get dangerous.
— Your friendly sovereign dev living rent-free in broken systems.
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