Well, for starters, I'd love to count myself as a "future generation" but statistically speaking I'm older than most people in our field by a good margin.
More importantly, only about 10% of my job time is spent doing work that is hands-on technical work. I'd say probably 1% of that total time is spent doing notebooks with dataframes. Whether I am competent or not is in no way determined by whether I can memorize the syntax to how to group by and count a dataframe. In fact I'd argue it's probably a poor use of time.
Whether memorizing things like syntax is part of competence or not is highly dependent on context. The ROI of me memorizing that specific syntax would probably be highly negative.
I'd fathom there are countless examples like that. There are people who only rarely need to code. There are people who code a lot but only rarely need to use a certain library or language. For people like that, making the code more accessible is a huge win (that includes IDEs, auto-complete or easy links to documentation, and things like Copilot).
More importantly, only about 10% of my job time is spent doing work that is hands-on technical work. I'd say probably 1% of that total time is spent doing notebooks with dataframes. Whether I am competent or not is in no way determined by whether I can memorize the syntax to how to group by and count a dataframe. In fact I'd argue it's probably a poor use of time.
Whether memorizing things like syntax is part of competence or not is highly dependent on context. The ROI of me memorizing that specific syntax would probably be highly negative.
I'd fathom there are countless examples like that. There are people who only rarely need to code. There are people who code a lot but only rarely need to use a certain library or language. For people like that, making the code more accessible is a huge win (that includes IDEs, auto-complete or easy links to documentation, and things like Copilot).