AI is obliterating autism as an absolute competitive advantage in tech careers.
5:30 AM · Jun 9, 2026 · 67.9K Views
TabulAI founder Bojan Tunguz argues AI is eliminating the competitive advantage historically held by autistic professionals in tech
Prakash responds that natural language programming instead favors creative writers.
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Many users rejected the claim that AI erodes autism's competitive advantage in tech careers, labeling it a bad read and responding with sarcasm or hostility, while a few approved or reframed autism as a superpower enhanced by AI.
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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.
Bojan Tunguz@tunguz
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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Chris von Csefalvay 🔜 CVPR26@epichrisis
@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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Bojan Tunguz@tunguz
@80sGeek You will keep building stupid crap that no normal human wants or needs.
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Bojan Tunguz@tunguz
@PawelJLisowski
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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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Monkey D-1000@0xKyu_
@tunguz Not so sure about that... I would wager it amplifies autists the most...
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Bojan Tunguz@tunguz
@rycharbai All irrelevant when you lack common sense and good judgment.
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8circuits@ryoshu
@tunguz ADHD ascending
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Bojan Tunguz@tunguz
@HououinTyouma
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Mild Mannered Maniac@80sGeek
@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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Bojan Tunguz@tunguz
@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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Chris von Csefalvay 🔜 CVPR26@epichrisis
@wundercorp @tunguz “You and what army?” *gestures wildly at six instances of Codex running five different swarm orchestrators*
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Bojan Tunguz@tunguz
@wundercorp @epichrisis How many human customers do you have?
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