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TabulAI founder Bojan Tunguz argues AI is eroding the competitive advantage autistic individuals have traditionally held in tech

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Bojan Tunguz, founder of TabulAI and a former NVIDIA engineer, floated the idea on X that AI is flattening the edge autistic people have long held in tech through sharp pattern spotting and sustained focus, while a quote-tweet reframed the shift as natural-language tools pulling in more literary voices than traditional coders.

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Bojan Tunguz@tunguz#698inTech

AI is obliterating autism as an absolute competitive advantage in tech careers.

5:30 AM · Jun 9, 2026 · 76.7K Views
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How the claim lands without numbers

Replies split between those who see AI as a force multiplier for neurodivergent strengths and those who call the advantage overstated or already fading for other reasons.

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No hiring stats, demographic shifts, or studies back the post yet, leaving the conversation as a quick spark rather than settled ground.

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Positive users see AI as supercharging autism's advantages in tech careers by creating a golden age with expert support for neurodivergent people, while negative users call the claim a bad read that punches down on autistic strengths.

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Prakash@8teAPi

Programming without code is just sparkling English literature, and will attract the same wordcels artists who fill MFA courses.

AI is obliterating autism as an absolute competitive advantage in tech careers.

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Aiki Godo@aiki_godo

@tunguz there are no careers anymore, there is only startups

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Mad ML scientist@HououinTyouma

@tunguz if you're still in autism pivot to schizophrenia

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@tunguz Hard disagree. Autism has always been a superpower, AI powered turbo mega autism is entirely something else. Amicable spergs like yours truly now have the ability to command armies of minions they don’t need to speak to in Standard Human.

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Paweł J Lisowski@PawelJLisowski

@tunguz is it? the mock cracked devs i know who benefit the most from AI are neurodivergent..

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@80sGeek You will keep building stupid crap that no normal human wants or needs.

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WunderCorp, Inc.@wundercorp

@tunguz @epichrisis We are not proving your point. Your point was that AI obliterates neurodivergence as a competitive advantage. We see it as a strength.

We see your inability to understand the things you build as a weakness.

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@tunguz Not so sure about that... I would wager it amplifies autists the most...

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@rycharbai All irrelevant when you lack common sense and good judgment.

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8circuits@ryoshu

@tunguz ADHD ascending

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@tunguz We have the power to sit here all day running bots, we will still crush you 😳

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Ryan Bailey@rycharbai

@tunguz bad read imo, it’s helping them make decisions and fail quicker

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Val (osopher)@Valen_T_N

@tunguz Imagine being an autist coder, knowing every lingo for everything and getting to prompt.

Idk bro still seems like an advantage

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@wundercorp @epichrisis Thanks for proving my point.

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Frozen@Frozen_Feel

@tunguz It's not, it takes a giga autist to technically converse with LLMs daily. Normies will continue using it for counseling and companionship.

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Mokayq@Xxx_sniper_xx

@tunguz dude i respect autistic nerds, now that im gliding through code like how tf can they stay locked in for so long

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@wundercorp @tunguz “You and what army?” *gestures wildly at six instances of Codex running five different swarm orchestrators*

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@wundercorp @epichrisis How many human customers do you have?

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