Canary in a Coal Mine scores the condition most in motion right now — your career in the AI era — against what AI is actually deploying today, not a snapshot frozen in hype. Alongside it: Cher Ami, a crisis-resource page that is free forever.
A free career risk scorer and a crisis-resource page. You answer nine questions about the work you actually do; you get a position on a map — not a doom number — and a plain-language read on where you stand. No account. No paywall. No ideology — just awareness.
Anyone can scrape a job-risk calculator. What's hard to copy is judgment about what AI can actually do today — the difference between what a vendor demo promises and what's shipping in production. A score built on hype is worse than no score. So the discipline behind the questions is simple and strict:
Every figure is dated. Every claim is sourced. When a fact can't be re-verified, it's softened rather than asserted — and when it goes stale, it comes out rather than getting a cosmetic date bump.
The editorial point of view on Career is that the honest signal is deployment reality, not capability hype — what AI is actually doing in production today, where premature rollouts are backfiring, and what that means for the person holding the job.
Canary is a solo project — designed, written, built, and maintained by one person. The work spans more than code: