You can buy Agilex devices for like $100 now. They're Altera's primary chip family at this point in every device range. You can also use Quartus for free on these devices and even download it all through Docker. Knock yourself out.
The reality is just that it's a lot of work, and Agilex is probably an order of magnitude (or two orders) more complex in scope than any existing FPGA with reversed or open specs. It's going to require a lot of expertise even with superhuman assistance. Even less "quirky" but fully open source designs like GateMate have very poor fmax and utilization in my experience. If people are going to Claude shit out in the EDA space I'd frankly rather have them work on more important day to day mundane things that are still lacking but important, eg improved performance, power analysis/floorplanning, sdc/constraint based clock synthesis and related tools, etc.
And yes, breaking your device is also a risk for some features too (eg Lattice ECP5 bitstream encryption has never been RE'd since it requires blowing fuses.) But the actual problem requires far more expertise than having Claude reverse engineer gameboy games.
The reality is just that it's a lot of work, and Agilex is probably an order of magnitude (or two orders) more complex in scope than any existing FPGA with reversed or open specs. It's going to require a lot of expertise even with superhuman assistance. Even less "quirky" but fully open source designs like GateMate have very poor fmax and utilization in my experience. If people are going to Claude shit out in the EDA space I'd frankly rather have them work on more important day to day mundane things that are still lacking but important, eg improved performance, power analysis/floorplanning, sdc/constraint based clock synthesis and related tools, etc.
And yes, breaking your device is also a risk for some features too (eg Lattice ECP5 bitstream encryption has never been RE'd since it requires blowing fuses.) But the actual problem requires far more expertise than having Claude reverse engineer gameboy games.