> Without hardware documentation, you're looking at decades of reverse engineering effort just to get somewhere half as far as an engineer with hardware documentation can get in a weekend.

I'm not sure this is true anymore and it is becoming less true with each new LLM release.

> No one cares about spending a decade reverse engineering the hardware on a Google Pixel or Samsung Galaxy.

Actually, this might a cool idea - just get a few super cheap smartphones, connect them all to a PC, give LLM access and tell it "make linux gud like android pls" and just give it a weekend.