Developer here, they definitely tend to be more spectrum than most but in most jobs they're not full autist. The "spectrum" theory puts autism as extreme male brain and slight autism like slightly male brain. Male/female brain is partly about interest in things vs interest in people. Coding is abstract as fuck and requires you to spend literally days on days of your life reading large volumes of rules with little connection to "concrete" reality. People willing/able to do this just tend to be further down the "interest in things" spectrum. Same with maths, physics, engineering. Meanwhile there's an article a day on how Google are evil sexists because they hire more male devs, from a massively male-slanted application pool whilst they're already discriminating against males to try and even it up. Literally the thing that made me suifuel modern culture the most.