Honestly the biggest problem is the entire environment is very VCS hostile in a hard to crack way.

I've had some success getting a bunch of scripts to export MS Access database structures, but it takes over an hour to run and requires some post processing clean up so it's not really a great <feature> -> <commit> cycle.

Honestly I'd desperately like a similar experience for GTK development - a few things seem to exist, but they've never really got me building something as quickly as VB6 did.

EDIT: I mean thinking about it, the way people are using AI programming tools feels very much like a desire to actually get the VB6 - no data flow model or weird pipeline or whatever rendering BS, just "I want a control here and here's what it should do". I remain pretty sure that AI is a very expensive solution to the problem of we've been building the wrong tools and libraries for years.