"engineer's disease" meaning in English

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          "text": "Humanities denial is enabled—and enables—another affliction that’s endemic within the tech industry: “engineer’s disease,” the belief that expertise in one field (usually in STEM) makes you an expert on everything else too.",
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          "text": "Revealing the workings of a machine, without disclosing what the machine does, is a classic symptom of engineer’s disease.",
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