Is the lack of domain knowledge a bad thing?

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I currently have an internship at a company that produces software for health insurance companies. When I first start, the only thing I knew about health insurance was the word obamacare

Other developers at the company seems to know about the industry through the software that they built, but maybe they already knew some?

My question is: is it bad to not have any domain knowledge of a particular field? I was thinking about this because computer science and software engineering have applications to every field, but is it enough to just know how to program to become successful?

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