I have to strongly disagree with that. I provably never was as productive as when I used REALbasic, which was a classical RAD tool. I sold the software made with it successfully for quite a while.

As most people here probably know, it's now called Xojo and in my opinion both somewhat outdated and expensive. So I'm not recommending it, but credit to were it's due and it certainly was due for early versions of REALbasic when it was still affordable shareware.

The problem with all RAD tools seems to be that they eventually morph into expensive corporate tools no matter what their origins were. I don't know any cross-platform exception (I don't count Purebasic as RAD and it's also not structured).

As for AI, it seems to be just the same. The right AI tool accelerates the easy parts so you have more time for the hard parts. Another thing that bothers me a lot when alleged "professionals" are arguing against everyday computing for everyone. They're accelerating the death of general computing platforms and in the end no one will benefit from that.