I.... Software Engineers are not better at making accurate historical claims than historians. I'd be fucking baffled if "new insights about history come from t

I.... Software Engineers are not better at making accurate historical claims than historians. I'd be fucking baffled if "new insights about history come from technologists" in any meaningful quantity. Like, it'd be among the most surprising thing involving human behavior I could imagine. Like, what software engineers do you know that have spent even a minute working in an archive? I see no way that this comment could be made without just a complete ignorance of the profession of history.