Automating My Arduino & ESP32 Code with AI – Anyone Else Tried deepseekai.free?

Hey everyone,

So… I’ve been building a small ESP32 project to log sensor data over Wi-Fi. Normally, this is my “Saturday hobby” — meaning it takes me three Saturdays to actually finish it because I spend half the time Googling syntax and the other half wondering why my serial monitor is blank.

Last week, I stumbled onto deepseekai.free. Out of curiosity, I asked it to write the boilerplate for ESP32 Wi-Fi connection + MQTT publishing. To my surprise, it gave me something clean, commented, and (brace yourself) it actually compiled on the first try. I didn’t know whether to be impressed… or offended. 😅

Here’s what I’ve noticed so far:

Great for generating repetitive setup code (Wi-Fi, sensors, MQTT).

Can quickly tweak Arduino examples to run on ESP32.

Adds comments so I still understand what’s going on.

But it’s not perfect:

Sometimes too confident — I’ve seen it suggest pins that don’t even exist on my board.

You still have to know your hardware quirks and double-check logic.

I’m curious — has anyone here used AI to speed up their Arduino or ESP32 projects? Did it actually save you time, or did it just give you fancier bugs to fix?

— A maker who’s finally spending more time soldering than debugging 🔧🤖