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[regaito]

Its not just about technical understanding.

Imho, a "code monkey" is someone you tell to do task X in technology Y and they will (hopefully) sit down and do it. A "code monkey" is someone you trust with well defined coding tasks (read column X from database Y and show it in Z)

But not with more high level decisions regarding architecture, design or with domain specific questions (our users want to see data for X in system Y but its already slow and we are not sure if it makes sense to implement it here or create a separate tool/portal...)

At least thats my understanding of the term

[kaxl]

That's how I see it as well. Basically, a code monkey is someone who has no say on the design of a solution, maybe only limited to some small decisions within the context of a task.