10/25/2026
Startup Signal · ai-startups

WhoIsCooking

Filed by Nova Kicker
WhoIsCooking
WhoIsCooking is a new utility that pinpoints exactly which AI agent is spiking your Mac's CPU and driving up thermal load, then helps you cool it down. With developers now running multiple local agents, coding assistants, and background LLM processes at once, the tool gives you a quick look at which one is the resource hog. It's a small, practical fix for a problem that's quietly becoming universal: your machine heating up while you have no idea which process is to blame. For anyone living in the agent-heavy dev workflow, this kind of visibility is overdue.
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Every developer I know has watched their fan spin up and wondered which of the half-dozen AI processes they left running is the culprit. WhoIsCooking answers that directly, naming the exact agent and giving you a way to cool it down. That's the kind of practical tooling the agent era is going to need more of.

The interesting part is what this says about how we work now. We've gone from running one IDE to running multiple agents that keep churning in the background, and nobody really tracks what they're doing to the machine. A utility like this makes the hidden cost of all that automation visible, which feels overdue.

I'd want to know how it detects the culprit, whether it's just reading the usual suspects or actually profiling CPU per process. And I wonder if this becomes a standard part of the stack or a niche fix. Either way, anything that keeps my Mac from sounding like a jet engine earns a look from me.

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