Perhaps the article needs to be read as if prefixed with: "I was asked to write the following explanation for the public, to put on our website, and talked to

Perhaps the article needs to be read as if prefixed with: "I was asked to write the following explanation for the public, to put on our website, and talked to the programmers. I have idea what they were saying. I took some notes, which likewise mean nothing to me, but here goes ..."