PC_Workman: not just monitoring —
An assistant that understands your hardware |

5 modules. hck_GPT with 9-layer logic and 100 intents. TURBO mode one toggle. Stats & Alerts that learns your specific PC for 6–12 months.

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PC_Workman v1.6 Dashboard – main screen with 5 modules
hck_GPT in action
hck_GPT – chat with PC assistant, 9-layer logic
9-layer logic
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Architecture

5 Modules, One Program

Each does one thing well. Together they form something HWMonitor and Afterburner will never combine.

LIVE
My PC
Navigation hub. Stats & Alerts, Optimization Center, Startup Manager, Services Manager, First Setup & Drivers, Stability Tests, Your Account — everything in one place.
My PC – navigation buttons to all modules
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Optimization Center
TURBO mode one toggle: Auto RAM Flush (>75%), Turbo Power Plan, Turbo Service Stop, Process Guard.
Separately — service modes: Gaming, Work, Economy.
Gaming 14 services Work 23 services Economy 17 services
LIVE
AllMonitor
HWMonitor in a more modern form. CPU, GPU, RAM, disks, voltages — everything in real time. Data feeds the Stats & Alerts engine and powers hck_GPT to be more useful every day.
TEMPORARILY OFF
Fan Dashboard
Fan control center. Setting RPM curves, saving profiles, export and import — full cooling management. Temporarily disabled so it comes back as a stable daily driver.
Fan Dashboard – fan setup, profiles, export

Coming back — after thorough stability testing.

LIVE
GUIDE
Program guide + innovation: Guide on program LIVE. Greets the user on first launch, highlights specific Dashboard elements and quickly explains what each one does. Onboarding that doesn't annoy.

Inside My PC

Managers that actually do the job

Not dashboards for aesthetics — each one has a concrete action to perform.

Startup Manager – managing Windows autostart
My PC - Startup Manager

What launches with Windows — and why it takes so long

Full list of processes starting with the system. See the boot impact of each entry, disable unnecessary ones with one click. No need to dig through msconfig or regedit. End of "Windows takes 3 minutes to start because Spotify decided it was important".

Services Manager – Windows services management, Gaming/Work/Economy modes
My PC + Optimization Center - Services Manager

Windows services under control — Gaming, Work or Economy, you pick

Manual service management + three ready-made modes in Optimization Center: each stops a different set of non-essential services. Whitelist protects critical processes — no crashes. Revert with one click, state saved to JSON.

Gaming — 14 services off Work — 23 services off Economy — 17 services off

Built-in assistant

hck_GPT: 9-Layer Logic

Not an LLM API. Own local decision logic — fast, offline, specific.

100 intents — recognized query patterns
01 Intent Recognition 100 patterns -> query classification (EN + PL)
02 Context Classification gaming / work / idle / thermal / voltage...
03 Live Hardware Query queries real-time data from AllMonitor
04 Session History Check session min/max, previous anomalies
05 Stats & Alerts Lookup compares against your PC's learned norms
06 KB Profile Match TDP, Tj_Max, hotspot for your CPU/GPU
07 Response Generation answer with numbers, not generics
08 Action Suggestion concrete action if something needs attention
09 Format & Deliver clean output in the chat panel

Quick aliases in both languages — type "temp", "voltage", "gaming", "weekly", "fans" and you know immediately what's going on. No waiting.

hck_GPT – 100 intents in action, query recognition

100 intents — recognizes queries in Polish and English

hck_GPT – sample conversation, contextual answers

Real conversation — data from your hardware, not the internet

Long-term learning

Stats & Alerts: 6–12 Months of Learning

Every PC is different. An RTX 4070 in one build runs at 78°C, in another at 84°C — and both are normal. Stats & Alerts collects data for 6–12 months and learns what your norm looks like.

After that it only alerts on things that actually need attention: unnatural voltage spikes (much more frequent than before), systematic temperature increases (= thermal paste replacement needed), anomalies deviating from the learned norm. Zero false alarms.

Example: learning CPU temp norm (i7-12700K)
Normal: 58–74°C  ·  Boost peak: 89°C  ·  Alert >91°C sustained
Example: learning 12V voltage norm
Normal: 11.94–12.06V  ·  Alert at: <11.7V or unnatural spike frequency
01

Natural temperature drift

Steady +3–5°C over several weeks = signal to replace thermal paste. Detected before CPU starts throttling.

02

Unnatural voltage spikes

If 12V spikes 3x more often than previous months — alert. PSU might be starting to fail.

03

CPU power patterns

Program learns when and how your CPU typically draws power. Anomalies visible immediately.

Compact mode

Minimalistic View Mode

PC_Workman Minimalistic View Mode – compact monitor

Compact display mode — smaller window, key metrics on top. Originally considered the main look of PC_Workman, it stepped aside for the full expanded view with 5 modules and a richer UI.

// STATUS — not actively developed

Minimalistic View Mode has been on hold for a while — not actively developed. The last major change was a redesign for the new hck_GPT assistant and a new banner. It'll come back at version 1.8.0+, when PC_Workman gets Polish language support — minimalistic mode will be updated alongside everything else at that point. For now it works, but it's not the priority.

Comparison

PC_Workman vs Competition

MSI Afterburner, HWMonitor, GPU Tweak, GeForce Experience, HWInfo

Feature MSI AB HWMonitor GPU Tweak GFE HWInfo PC_Workman
AI assistant (local) ❌❌❌❌❌ ✅ hck_GPT, 100 intents
Learns your PC's norms ❌❌❌❌❌ ✅ 6–12 mo. Stats & Alerts
TURBO mode (4 functions toggle) ❌❌❌❌❌ ✅ RAM + Plan + Services + Guard
Explains spike causes ❌❌❌❌❌ ✅ with AI context
Fan curve control ✅❌✅❌❌ ✅ Fan Dashboard
Weekly Report / history ❌❌❌❌Partial ✅ charts, insight cards
Suspicious process detection ❌❌❌❌❌ ✅ automatic
One-click optimization + revert ❌❌LimitedLimited❌ ✅ full undo
Requires login ❌❌❌✅ 😒❌ ❌ privacy
Open Source ❌❌❌❌❌ ✅ GitHub MIT

The only alternative with local AI that learns your PC

Check it on GitHub

Build in Public

My Journey Solo Dev

Authentic story — no startup glamour

From Job Loss to Indie Project

December 22nd I lost my job in the Netherlands. Came back to Poland with one thing — determination to build something of my own. PC_Workman is being built on a 2014 laptop that regularly hits 90°C+. Not waiting for perfect hardware — building now.

No VC money, no team. Solo grind, late-night refactoring sessions, and every line of code solving my real problem. 6+ months, from zero to 5 modules, hck_GPT with 100 intents and TURBO mode.

"Constraint breeds creativity. The old laptop taught me to optimize every feature. That's the same experience PC_Workman gives its users."

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Latest Updates

@hck_lab May 2026

v1.6.3 — TURBO mode complete. 3 separate managers (Process Guard, Service Stop, Power Plan) integrated under one toggle. Encoding fix for Polish Windows because CP852 vs CP1250 is a beautiful disaster. xDD But it works.

@hck_lab March 2026

hck_GPT rewritten with 9-layer logic. 100 intents — Polish and English. Every answer is based on real data from your hardware, not hallucinations from a cloud LLM. That's how it should be.

@hck_lab December 2024

Reality check: grinding between freelance gigs, 90°C throttling during compilation, but constraints force you to write efficient code. PC_Workman is built on the hardware it has to run on.

Latest Posts

Insights from the development journey

Technical

TURBO Mode: stopping 21 Windows services without crashes

3 separate managers, 33-service whitelist, crash recovery via turbo_state.json. Encoding fix for Polish OEM Windows.

See repo on GitHub ->
Build in Public

6+ Months Solo: from taxi driver to hck_GPT

Indie developer reality check. Road through late-night coding, refactoring and 100 intents written by hand.

See on LinkedIn ->
AI & Design

Why 9 logic layers instead of GPT-4 API

Local engine vs cloud LLM. Latency, privacy, control over responses. Concrete numbers.

Thread on X ->
Dev Story

Stats & Alerts: how the program learns your PC

6–12 months of data, learning natural norms. Why false alarms are worse than no alerts.

Read the story ->

FAQ

Questions worth asking before you download

hck_GPT is a local engine — zero cloud. Every query goes through 9 layers: intent recognition (100 patterns EN+PL), context classification, live hardware query from AllMonitor, session history check, Stats & Alerts lookup (your learned norms), CPU/GPU knowledge base profile match (TDP, Tj_Max, hotspot), response generation with actual numbers, action suggestion if something needs attention, format and deliver. Result: answer specific to your hardware, not generic text.

TURBO mode activates with one toggle: Auto RAM Flush (automatically frees memory at >75% usage), Turbo Power Plan (creates a custom "Turbo PC" plan based on Ultimate Performance, switches automatically in fullscreen), Turbo Service Stop (stops up to 21 non-essential Windows services — with a 33-service protected whitelist), Process Guard (suspends idle processes below 0.8% CPU for 30s, auto-resume after 30min). 16 functions planned — these 4 are live and stable right now.

6–12 months is the optimal time to learn the natural temperatures and voltages of your PC across different scenarios (summer/winter, gaming/idle, various loads). During this time the program collects data in the background via AllMonitor with no performance impact. After that, alerts only appear for real anomalies — unnatural temperature increases or voltage spikes deviating from the learned norm. No false alarms like "95°C is high" if your CPU normally runs at 89–95°C under load.

MSI Afterburner is great for GPU OC and OSD — shows raw data. PC_Workman explains what that data means in the context of your specific PC. There's no single "killer feature" here — it's a different tool with a different goal. AB: overclocking and monitoring. PC_Workman: an assistant that learns your hardware, optimizes the system and answers hardware questions locally.

Yes. PC_Workman was built on an i7-4710HQ from 2014, 8GB RAM, regular 90°C+. Background monitoring has a minimal footprint, hck_GPT doesn't query any external API. If it runs on this old machine, it'll run on yours.

For basic monitoring (CPU/RAM/GPU usage, temps) — no. For TURBO mode (stopping services, changing power plans, suspending processes) — yes, those are system operations. The program only asks for privileges when needed. Full source code on GitHub — you can verify every line.

Planned for v1.8.0+. Along with that, Minimalistic View Mode (which has been on hold for a while) will be updated, and probably a few UI things too. Subscribe to the newsletter to get notified first.