AI can speed up a lot of the manual labour needed to bring even an almost dead, 10-year-old device back to life. My Xiaomi Mi Max 2 (oxygen, MSM8953) was dead. With AI help and my own knowledge, I ported/rewrote the missing drivers, and it now runs Nura (postmarketOS) with working camera, torch, SIM, phone calls and SMS. Only the loudspeaker is still broken.
Everything is up for anyone who wants to install it, or to understand the changes and manually write the patches for mainline: https://github.com/sv1sjp/mi-max2-oxygen-msm8953-nura-drivers Testing, feedback and PRs welcome.
LLM code is not workable for widespread adoption, but for individual use cases it can do a lot of interesting things!
It depends on how much human care and attention was used. Vibe coding gets all the media attention but real work is being done by experienced engineers that know how to guide this tool and wrangle the code into shape.
But the docs/code can definitely be used to support manual labour.