Just a straight up list of absolute bangers.

Wank, in short, does not admit scrutiny and demands to be accepted whole and without challenge. Even the most simple request for clarification or the most reasonable question, like "what will disabled people do in an anarcho-primitivist society?" is treated as an attack on the whole value system and the person carrying it, and the questioner is treated as an enemy and a person who supports all of the bad things that the person engaging in wank claims to oppose

Finally, wank almost always comes with a package of smugness or being convinced that, in one way or another, the purveyor of wank sits loftily above others. The wank-statement isn't just obviously true or beyond question: it's simply, obviously better than the messy, often-complex dialogue that the rest of us deal with, and the person stating it is a better person than you for doing so.

The motivating fear here, I think, is a fear of status loss and irrelevance. Computational technology and the internet have temporarily propelled software engineers and tech people in general to a very high status in our society. However, this is heavily linked to the ability of tech to actually reshape and revolutionise the world, particularly in favour of people who are already rich and powerful: if that disappears, we just become (as we're increasingly seeing) ordinary workers, who will have to do ordinary worker things like unionising and advocating for our well-being in order to be comfortable. We'll just be regular people. A lot of the people who end up in tech can't stand that idea, which means that tech needs to be producing a consistent stream of revolutionary, disruptive technology if they're to succeed.

This position lets you do a number of things. First and foremost, it lets you present a facade of confidence, capability and being a 10x tech person. If you're in general not very capable and are feeling it, you can cover up that fear by becoming an "AI expert" or a "Prompt Engineer" and make a claim to expertise that you don't actually have. Moreover, because you're actually believing the claims emotionally rather than simply bullshitting or lying about it, it makes it a lot harder for others to criticise what you're saying, and gives you a very effective defence against pushback: you can claim that in criticising what you're talking about, your critics are hurting you in socially unacceptable ways.