About the "hard way", everything in the article is screaming that OP's new way of coding is the hard way, not the other way around
He should have used OpenAI or Anthropic - instead of using Google, like a Neanderthal.
I’m an AI skeptic, but this ain’t it.
OP explains his enormous and ridiculous struggles yet you say it is irrelevant.
About the "hard way", everything in the article is screaming that OP's new way of coding is the hard way, not the other way around