Ask HN: Should I learn to code enough to understand or to deploy?

I am non-tech founder learning to code the basics (front-end and C#/.NET). I agree with all those advices that I should learn to code, but one never answered question is "for what?". So I hope to get some good advice here. Should I learn enough to understand and talk to developers, and eventually act as their "intern", giving some junior help on a specific task; or should I learn enough to understand all the code and achieve to completely ceeate a new feature from the ground and deploy it? Consider that I already have a functional open to public MVP (outsourced) and just need to improve it.