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Monday Grind Blueprint · #11

Certifying in AI Through the Company Whose API I Avoided

My AI has been running for months without Google. Today I take Google's AI certification exam.

By Marcin Firmuga·2026-06-08·2 min read·Monday Grind Blueprint #11

Today I'm taking the Google AI certification exam — while my own AI has been running for months without Google.

Five weeks of Skills of Tomorrow 3.0 by Google and SGH Warsaw, and today the final exam drops. My first structured tech education since tech school in 2023.

I built hck_GPT from scratch: 102 intents, 9-layer routing, thermal baselines, voltage anomaly detection. All offline. No API. No cloud. No pip install openai. And now I'm certifying in AI through the company whose API I specifically avoided using. Funny thing — half the course was stuff I'd already built by trial and error; the other half showed me how much I was doing wrong. Both halves were worth it.

This week

  1. Maximized View Mode — last week I built the scaling system; this week every page adapts to fullscreen.
  2. Roadmap extension — the current roadmap ends at v1.7.9. The project outgrew it. Extending to v1.9+ toward the Microsoft Store.
  3. Code review and stability — 6 stable optimization features after tester feedback, more issues on the board.

11 months. 418 commits. 57 stars. 330 downloads. Friday will tell the truth. Try PC Workman, break it, tell me what's wrong — that feedback is worth more than any star.

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This is the project behind the post. PC Workman is a free, open-source Windows system monitor with an offline AI assistant - everything described here is real, shipped code. Download it or read the source.
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