We already know: Java programmers have complained all the time why they need to be philosophers in order to design a sound object oriented design. The problem is the bad state of object orientation programming language design, so the languages need to be improved by applying a sound ontology on the design of them. I find the current state in ontology research very interesting as a way to improve the program languages, but the programming languages also suffer from a bad knowledge of psychology, so there is more to fix.
Your description of the computer software programmer situation does not in any way reflect what are the real problems of software engineering. The description is perfectly wrong. Software engineering these days doesn't involve algorithm construction, it is not "hard" in that way, it is usually about well established abstraction methods and making translations from the real problem to code. The problem is how the capitalist system, its recruitment methods, and career systems interfers with a sound programming-end-user interaction, that has been described by the Agile manifesto and other initiatives to provide a sound development environment, that is almost never implemented in real life. The software engineers probably know lots of philosophy "by instinct", but the other persons in the system don't. And they don't care about philosophy unless they can be convinced that "philosophy is a winning market strategy", and for all they can, they will preserve their own positions by any means, fine or foul.
