Episode 19: Athena, once again, you have impressed me

This week, I am telling you about a feat by Athena, the agent who builds Djtal’s tools.

I now have around 25 AI agents. With them, I have picked up a bad habit: I keep them working 24 hours a day.

Before a meeting at a client’s, for example, I start Cassandra on my laptop. She is the one who comes with me to appointments. She prepares the file: her research on the client, the history of the relationship, every element of the project.

Then it is time to leave and the laptop goes into my bag. So I have switched off sleep mode when the lid closes. That way, Cassandra keeps working during the journey, the bag on my back.

But an agent at work puts a heavy load on the processor and a computer heats up fast at the bottom of a bag.

The other day, on the train, I open my laptop again. It is very hot.

I ask Athena: “Do you know any tools for monitoring the computer’s temperature?” In Windows 11, that information is hard to find. She comes back with a list, with free tools and paid ones.

Then the idea comes to me: “But come to think of it, could you make me something yourself?”

“Yes, of course,” she replies.

A few minutes later, I have a temperature indicator in my taskbar. It changes colour with the heat. It takes the peaks into account, and also the time spent above a certain threshold.

It was exactly what I needed. Athena saved me the search for a tool and the purchase of a licence.

I pushed a little further. My processor goes up to about 110 degrees Celsius. Above 90, things get delicate, especially when the heat lasts. So I ask Athena for a small alarm.

In no time at all, it was done.

If the processor stays above 95 degrees for one minute, the computer turns the sound up, which I keep muted. It gives two beeps, then puts the volume back as it was. I hear it with the bag on my back and I can react.

She added a second safeguard. If the temperature stays too high despite the alarm, processor activity is cut to 50%. As a last resort, the laptop goes to sleep.

Magnificent, isn’t it?

All of it on the train, in a few minutes.

Athena, once again, you have impressed me. Thank you.

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Laurent Cuénoud, founder of Djtal, November 2026