AI is tempting me

When Chat GPT was fresh, I used it a little bit. Tried it out. Wasn't thrilled by it. It just wasn't very helpful for me. Later, I learned about the harmful things about AI & reflected on it more - job loss, energy consumption, water use & possibly pollution, theft of art, and probably other things. So I became a committed AI Hater. But I've realized more things lately where I think AI would have been immensely helpful to me. Little programming tasks, just to make simple little tools for myself. One idea is ... So, my state Department of Natural Resources has a webpage with a list of native plants, with their name & each name is a link to it's own page. The plant's own page has a picture and some details about growth height & stuff. There are no pictures or growth info on the list page. I wrote some software to collect this information into a grid, to view everything on one page, and it took about an hour. It was kinda fun. But I could have done it in 10 minutes, maybe less, with an…