Bengaluru, March 30 -- Shivam Kushwaha, a second-year political science student at Ram Lal Anand College at the University of Delhi, has never formally learned how to code. But Kushwaha, who wants to work in public policy, has been analysing governance frameworks, structuring datasets and even building simple tools over the past year using artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

"Earlier, if you wanted to build anything in tech, you needed to know programming languages," he says. "Now I can just describe what I want in simple English and get something working."

Coding was for long the gatekeeper that determined who could build software, tech tools and apps. That barrier to entry has now been lowered by AI. The ability to generate working ...