Ask LLM to generate rust code from chat, usb, i2c, GPU drivers - build and test it automatically? Possible?
Or start with other "smaller" projects such as sqlite, apache, nginx, etc - possible?
LLMs seem generally unsuited for the task, because they're fundamentally approximators that won't always get things right, and as a result will introduce subtle bugs. Perhaps if you paired them with some sort of formal methods... I'm not aware of anyone doing that. Tests aren't sufficient - lots of subtle bugs will not be caught by existing test suites.
Your idea of "smaller" projects is not... smaller enough. See the actual success stories for example: https://github.com/immunant/c2rust?tab=readme-ov-file#uses-o...