I'm reading their comment as a joke about how software engineers tend to overestimate their own expertise on things like physics and are not actually anywhere close to experts.
Software engineers presenting weird pseudo science as serious physics is one way this manifests.
That's quite a strong claim. I'm skeptical. Sources?
> Have physicists looked into this?
They shelved it right next to "God Made The Universe" in the "Unfalsifiable Propositions" section, under the title "Grad Students Made The Universe."