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> Sometimes you don't need an expert to produce highly secure, highly optimized code.

This is one for the ages.

I think they meant that sometimes you don't need secure and optimized code and hence you don't need an expert.

That is definitely not a possible interpretation:

> to produce highly secure, highly optimized code.

The key word there is "produce" - meaning, the secure and optimized code is being written.

(Strictly) copying data between protobufs is pretty hard to mess up.