diff --git a/tinygrad/codegen/lowerer.py b/tinygrad/codegen/lowerer.py
index 739cb510a1..b5d2bc627f 100644
--- a/tinygrad/codegen/lowerer.py
+++ b/tinygrad/codegen/lowerer.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 # the job of the lowerer is to do indexing
-from __future__ import annotations
 import functools, itertools, operator
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from typing import List, Tuple, cast, Optional
diff --git a/tinygrad/engine/jit.py b/tinygrad/engine/jit.py
index 67b98a39c7..9acfcbbd28 100644
--- a/tinygrad/engine/jit.py
+++ b/tinygrad/engine/jit.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-from __future__ import annotations
 from typing import TypeVar, Generic, Callable, List, Tuple, Union, Dict, cast, Optional, Any
 import functools, collections
 from tinygrad.tensor import Tensor
diff --git a/tinygrad/renderer/cstyle.py b/tinygrad/renderer/cstyle.py
index 82fb9faee0..f641d2a3d7 100644
--- a/tinygrad/renderer/cstyle.py
+++ b/tinygrad/renderer/cstyle.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-from __future__ import annotations
 from typing import Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Union, DefaultDict, Literal, Callable, cast
 import os, math
 from collections import defaultdict, Counter
diff --git a/tinygrad/runtime/support/elf.py b/tinygrad/runtime/support/elf.py
index f03370b288..b4e6afc09f 100644
--- a/tinygrad/runtime/support/elf.py
+++ b/tinygrad/runtime/support/elf.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-from __future__ import annotations
 from typing import Tuple, List, Any
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 import tinygrad.runtime.autogen.libc as libc