Especially when 90% of code is either glue or boilerplate, and having something semi-intelligently suggest which API calls to use and how to structure a call to

Especially when 90% of code is either glue or boilerplate, and having something semi-intelligently suggest which API calls to use and how to structure a call to them will save you most of the time you'd otherwise have to spend dredging through documentation and/or stackoverflow. One of the hardest things to come to terms with as a budding young software dev is that most real world code is as wide as an ocean and as deep as a puddle, and the occasions where it's harmless (let alone actually helpful) to be clever are few and far between.