Microsoft
Microsoftsome might think that this is making developers dumber, but when I first started learning SQL back in 2000, they had a built in query builder which now is used to build views (select new view to see what I mean). I didn't know the first thing about SQL and was just given the manual and MSDN disks and told I was now in charge of report queries, to learn it and fix a bug in a report. I was fortunately shown how to use the old query designer (right click on a view folder and choose new view to see it) and I used this to construct queries for the first year. It gave an easy way to pick tables, and showed me what the various types of joins looked like, how to filter data and how to use aliases. I slowly used it less and less once I knew how the code worked and it became faster just to write the code myself as I got comfortable. I think generative AI will be something like that on steroids for new developers. Allowing them to quickly create and experiment with custom code without having to do hours or days of research through expired online help articles and should be a great boon to teach them how to code projects they've never tried before.
