Given the number of times I've bricked hardware during reverse-engineering and driver development, I don't find it super likely, tbh. I'm by no means an expert here, but it's one of those things where if you already have good enough documentation (which in this case could be a known-good implementation) then it's more of a translation task and LLMs could absolutely be helpful there, but the edge cases are sharp and frequent.

Maybe in a few years. I find ai most successful when you can provide a very clear spec and solid test suite, when I don’t have that it makes a lot of mistakes without handholding.