[coldtea]

>Are you confused about the meaning of understanding vs a literal equivalence?

No, but you seem to be about any context not spelled out completely and pedantically.

>e.g. “ Because the code is the entirety of the process” is clearly false regardless of which way you look at it.

A coder works on code (literally editing lines of code, which is what they deliver), and is called to create, understand, and debug code.

Else, sure, code also runs on some server, by some organization, that had meetings to decide the requirements, and there are also end users, and the whole thing runs in some planet, inside a universe, or perhaps a multi-verse, so the code its not the entirety of the process /s