> You have to start somewhere. Code optimization is utterly useless if you can't parse code. It's absolutely not uncommon for architecture experts to plug into

> You have to start somewhere. Code optimization is utterly useless if you can't parse code. It's absolutely not uncommon for architecture experts to plug into the optimization stage of an existing compiler; expecting them to understand the first stages is not useful at all. They need to understand the AST / IR, but not how to arrive at it.