From article:

"While cheap, modern adapters usually only work with newer "LBA" type drives, ATAboy works all the way back to the earliest CHS only, PIO Mode 0, ATA disks."

So I guess this would work on some particularly ancient drives that a USB adapter wouldn't work with - not that I've ever encountered one. It is vibecoded, but sounds like it would work fine to get an image off of the drive, which won't be very large compared to even modest contemporary storage capacities.

Seems to me from reading the deleted text file[1] like the author[2] used an LLM to get feedback on how to improve their own code. That isn't at all what "vibe-coding" usually means, and I say that as a complete AI hater myself.

Or do you have some "smoking gun" evidence?

I think the setup screen is a really nice touch and not something an AI would come up with.

[1] https://github.com/redruM0381/ATAboy/commit/4e55223acd1c8cdc...

[2] or someone else? it keeps using the phrase "your friend"