Configure Code and the Frequency Spectrum

What is config and what is code? Is this really nebulous gray space, as you say? And it's hard to define. I've seen people think about this in terms of something like dbt, which is just, hey, it's a file that I can check in right? But then there's also from the engineering side, like the entire world of configuring environments using code. So let's call that the world of Terraform. And that gets arbitrarily complex as well. It's not just that it's implemented, sorry, it's defined as code. It's that the configuration is code, but it is executed by a very peculiar kind of underlying system That aims to