It’s certainly a big part of the ML scene, but to a slightly lesser extent, a cultural facet of development in general. It’s not all bad! Many people have solved problems that nobody in their right mind would have attempted knowing the nitty gritty details; often the problem they solved wasn’t the one they intended to solve, or they only solve one small subset of it, but were still valuable advancements. Unfortunately, that also leads to reinforcing some people’s Dunning-Krueger-fueled insistence that they can solve another field’s difficult problems with a few thought experiments, and the only reason it hasn’t already been solved is because nobody thought to ask a developer as smart as them to momentarily consider the problem. Non-developers in tech often bear the brunt of it: moving into design after a decade of dev work, that irritating mindset was one of the reasons I left tech altogether a couple years later.