underpowered machines? the only reason it needs "powerful machines" is because it's a shitty react app in the terminal. I've never seen anything else flicker like that. it's not like it's running the llm on the "underpowered machine".
kilocode runs fine. opencode runs fine. qwen code runs fine. what exactly is Claude code doing that requires so much power? I'm sorry but it sounds like you're speaking from the wrong end.