Code Is Not Prose

"don’t get caught up in the idea that you’re writing or editing a novel."

Code can be prose:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Programming_Langua...

Literate programming also views code as a form of prose and could be considered a predecessor to programming notebooks (Jupyter notebooks and similar).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming

Not all code is prose, but some code can be.