[mostlysimilar]

Looks miserable. Prompt, tweak, review, test, tweak, prompt, review, test, review, tweak, prompt, etc. Fiddling with settings windows in some black box software that belongs to someone else.

Programming: a powerful skillset, one of the few things that can give you autonomy and agency besides money. Doable on basic computer hardware with no internet connection. Self-reinforcing, investing in yourself.

Prompting: requires expensive subscriptions to someone else's computer, someone else's software. They can turn it off, they control it. Spending your days QAing software and reviewing code and describing in worse language what you want the computer to do, over and over, until you test your way to something approximating what you wanted. Not to mention incinerating the environment.

I know which of the two I prefer.

[tough]

local open source llms can run on your HW

its nit really choosing one ot the other imho

they supplement each other