Monday Grind Blueprint · #13

Every Gaming Tool Picks Your Overlay. Mine Starts Empty.

MSI, Razer, Corsair — they pick, you watch. I think that's backwards. So I built one that shows nothing until you choose.

By Marcin Firmuga·2026-06-22·4 min read·Monday Grind Blueprint #13

Three days on a feature you'll see for two seconds, then forget exists. That's not a waste — it's the entire point.

Most overlays vomit 40 stats across your screen mid-game. Mine starts empty. You drop in exactly what you want — temps in one corner, FPS in another, nothing else — or pick one of three ready layouts. A glance when you want it. Invisible when you don't.

And because PC Workman watches what you're actually doing, it knows when you launch a game. So you get a small hello in the corner for a second:

A monitor that recognises your game instead of just measuring your GPU. Small thing. Feels completely different.

Here's where you come in. Back in Monday Grind Blueprint #9 I asked what you'd ask an AI living inside your system monitor. 28 of you answered — every single question became real code that week. I'm doing it again, and this time the AI actually remembers your machine.

1️⃣ Do you game? Tell me the game and what greeting it should pop. The best ones ship.
2️⃣ What would you ask an AI that knows your exact temps, voltages, and what's eating your PC right now?

This week

And quietly, this week the project turns one year old. 12 dead projects came before it. This is the one that didn't die. I also completed Google's 5-week “Skills of Tomorrow 3.0 AI” program — now it's time to put that knowledge into real code.

Friday will tell the truth. What would you ask your PC if it could actually answer?

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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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Marcin Firmuga

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