From Claude Code to Micro-Agent: The Rabbit Hole of AI Coding Agents on Vintage Hardware
June 23, 2026 —
~cartwright
Every developer knows the feeling. You see a shiny new tool, your brain sparks with possibilities, and you immediately try to run it on hardware that has no business hosting it(well maybe only me).
This is the story of how a simple desire to try Claude Code led me down a rabbit hole of instruction set failures, API translation layer frustration, context-window blowouts, and ultimately, writing my own lightweight AI coding agent in Ruby.