Thanks! Yeah another side project I used was once I got home assistant running I used ChatGPT to write a lot of ESP32 code for me to get some soil moisture sensors working for my outdoor garden. It also gave me a lot of input on the wiring up of the sensor and ESP32. And it helped me with the general concepts of ESP-IDF versus Arduino frameworks for ESP32, getting an SSD1306 OLED screen running on it and and and...
So yeah, it enables my brain to just chase the inspiration rabbit without getting too bogged down in infrastructure.
Shout out to all those generous souls who posted how-to's and project notes for their IoT projects, so that machines could learn from them.