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Wednesday Code Autopsy · #1

Task Manager Says 80%. Is That Weird For You?

"Is this spike actually weird for your machine?" - the question your PC can't answer itself.

By Marcin Firmuga·2026-03-25·4 min read·Wednesday Code Autopsy #1

Why your PC is screaming… and Task Manager has no idea why.

Task Manager pops up: "CPU 80%." Cool. But why 80%? Is it normal… for you?

PC_Workman does something different. It asks the question your PC can't answer itself: "Is this spike actually weird for your machine?"

The quiet magic behind it

It first learns your personal baseline — not some generic "50% is fine." Then it watches live behaviour and only raises its voice when something genuinely breaks your normal pattern.

So instead of a dry "CPU 87%," you get:

CPU just jumped to 87% - that's +45% above your usual.
Chrome has been running for 3 hours.

The same smart logic works for RAM, GPU and temperatures. Simple. Contextual. It actually feels like having a friend who really knows your PC — not a gauge shouting numbers. This little system is one of the things that came out of hundreds of late nights trying to make system monitoring less boring and more… human.

PC_Workman v1.6.8 is liveopen source, MIT licensed. Already sitting at 80+ downloads and 19 GitHub stars at the time of writing.

Code Autopsy drops every Wednesday. Next time with YouTube Shorts.

What's the most annoying thing your current monitoring tool does (or doesn't do)? Drop it below.

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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

Solo developer · HCK_Labs · building PC Workman in public

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