tl;dr: The Hackintosh community, thought to be dying after Apple's transition to ARM and the end of x86 macOS support in macOS 27, has instead exploded with activity thanks to AI-assisted reverse engineering tools like Claude Code combined with Ghidra. Recent breakthroughs include macOS 27 running on Snapdragon laptops and RK3588 ARM SBCs, iOS 17 on the Nintendo Switch OLED, and Nvidia 50-series GPU support. The author also documents building an iOS app on a hackintoshed ThinkPad T490 using Xcode 26's AI integrations without writing any code.