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Like saying you don't need to be a structural engineer to demolish a skyscraper. You need to be pretty well versed in computer science to be able to hack a system to any reasonable extent. If you just go ham at it and just press random buttons nothing is going to happen / you're going to be detected.
Hackers write programmes all of the time.
Not really. Big different between programs and systems. Saying 'good at doing teh codez' is just one set of skills is nonsense. And being a structural engineer is not sufficient to build a skyscraper anyway. In the immortal words of Le Corbusier, they're machines for living in. Which is why architect is a different career from structural engineer and both get involved. Your exanple undermines your own point.