Trigger Warning! I used AI to do A LOT of the implementation. The genie is out of the bottle, and AI is going to be a tool for developers. Learn to use the tool.

Anyway.

Story time!

My day job is as a software engineer for a company that mostly does ruggedized displays. We've recently been challenged to see where AI can improve workflow/productivity/yada yada yada.

I also like making things in my personal time.

Well, long story short, I wanted a little weather widget for my desk. So I set out to make one.

It's mostly filled with Adafruit boards, including their Qualia ESP32-S3 board. Which is a really cool board, and for $20 you really can't beat it if you want to work with something other than SPI displays.

Anyway, for my part, I wrote a very detailed product spec and slowly fed that to ChatGPT, then had AI write a design document. Which turned out pretty decent.…