Programming code tells the computer to do something, but what makes the code actually mean anything to the computer?

Question

Programming code tells the computer to do something, but what makes the code actually mean anything to the computer?

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Answer 1

Most people are misinterpreting the question.

The code itself is made in a way that when fed into the cpu, the cpu will interpret everything into its own instructions.

Retrieve x from memory, retrieve y from memory, add x to y, ask the chipset for access to a resource, etc.

The cpu, gpu and igpu all take data that’s created to tell them what to do. The gpu will form images and send them to the monitor, the cpu will compute things.