This is like saying there's nothing to learn about programming, you're just telling a computer what to do. :)

It's partly true, but where this logic gets stuck is software engineering, for both the cases.

Just telling the AI what to do won't get you to good software, especially when you want to use dozens of agents working in parallel, when you have something correctness sensitive, when you want the AI to try and solve a research problem you have a hunch about but not a concrete solution.